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World Food Programme to end aid for half a million in Gaza due to funding shortfall

World Food Programme to end aid for half a million in Gaza due to funding shortfall
France 24 Monday 19 October 2026, 07:33 UTC By FRANCE 24 1 min read
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World Food Programme to end aid for half a million in Gaza due to funding shortfall The UN World Food Programme has warned that funding shortages will leave about 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip without critical food aid in a territory where two thirds of the population remains acutely food insecure. The WFP said it is reducing its monthly assistance from 1.6 million to 1.1 million people.

World Food Programme to end aid for half a million in Gaza due to funding shortfall The UN World Food Programme has warned that funding shortages will leave about 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip without critical food aid in a territory where two thirds of the population remains acutely food insecure. The WFP said it is reducing its monthly assistance from 1.6 million to 1.1 million people. The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday it would end monthly assistance to 500,000 people in Gaza due to a funding shortfall, while warning that needs remained acute. "As of this month, we're now cutting half a million people from the number of people that we're assisting," Shaun Hughes, the WFP country director, told AFP. The reductions bring down the number of Palestinians receiving WFP aid either in food or cash assistance to 1.1 million people – still roughly half of war-battered Gaza's population. Read morePalestinians struggle to find food in Gaza a year after ceasefire (FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters) Keywords for this article
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