The United Nations World Food Programme has said around 2.2 million people in Gaza need urgent food assistance, warning that the agency’s access to those in need is extremely limited without fuel and connectivity.
“The WFP was working with 23 bakeries in Gaza at the start of its emergency response, providing bread for 200,000 people in shelters. But food systems are collapsing. The last bakery that WFP had been working with was shut down because it had no fuel or gas,” it said in a statement.
“Nearly one-third of the population of Palestine — 33.6 per cent, or 1.84 million people — are food insecure. Funding shortages had already meant a devastating cut in assistance for 60pc of WFP food-assistance recipients in June 2023,” the agency added.