Funding shortages force World Food Programme to cut aid to Gaza
The World Food Programme says it must drastically reduce lifesaving food assistance in Gaza, cutting the number of people it helps by about a third as funding runs dry.
The World Food Programme says it is being forced to drastically reduce lifesaving assistance across Gaza because of severe funding shortages.
The UN agency will cut the number of people it helps from around one point six million to one point one million. Daily hot meals from community kitchens will fall from two hundred and fifty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand.
The cuts land as winter approaches, with nearly all of Gaza's two point one million people displaced and two-thirds relying on food aid to survive. The agency says it received less than half the funding for its Palestinian operations this year compared with previous years.
Its Palestine director stressed the cuts are about money, not falling need. The WFP says it urgently needs four hundred and fifty million dollars to keep critical operations running over the next six months.
Reporting based on coverage from BBC News.