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WFP cuts Gaza aid as funding gaps leave 1.4 million facing food shortages
The UN's World Food Programme is scaling back aid in Gaza because it lacks funding.
The agency says 500,000 fewer people will receive aid each month.
It also says 1.4 million people face acute food shortages in the territory.
The cuts are happening despite a US-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
The funding shortfall is limiting the aid the programme can provide.
The reduction means fewer people will receive monthly assistance as severe food shortages continue.
The World Food Programme is cutting food assistance in Gaza because of funding shortages.
The number of people receiving its monthly assistance will fall from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.
About 1.4 million people in Gaza face crisis-level food insecurity or worse, according to the WFP.
Daily hot meals will fall from 250,000 to 150,000, and some hard-to-reach families will receive them every other day.
The agency says it needs $450 million over the next six months to maintain critical operations in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
- Who
- The UN World Food Programme is reducing assistance to people in Gaza.
- What
- It is cutting the number of monthly recipients, food rations and daily hot meals because of funding shortages.
- When
- The cuts were reported on October 19, 2026, as winter approaches.
- Where
- Gaza.
- Why
- The WFP says funding shortages are forcing the reductions, not a decline in need or lack of access.
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Cash transfers provided to some half a million people had already been reduced.
Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire, but violence continued and little progress was made on reconstruction.
The WFP said monthly assistance recipients would fall from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.
- Monthly assistance recipients
- Reduced from 1.6 million to 1.1 million
- People facing crisis-level food insecurity or worse
- About 1.4 million
- Daily hot meals
- Reduced from 250,000 to 150,000
- Flour and ration-box recipients
- To fall from 1.1 million to 600,000 each month
- Funding needed
- $450 million over the next six months
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What people are saying
These cuts are happening just as we are facing the fourth winter. You know, I've been through the winters here, absolutely brutal,
not because the needs are coming down, or because we don't have access - we do.
It's a disaster! What will we do with these reduced rations? How will we provide for the little ones?
This will affect us a lot. The daily aid was somehow ticking the box but now it will be every two days,