World Food Programme cuts Gaza aid

newsOct 19, 202634116

The UN World Food Programme will reduce monthly assistance in Gaza from about 1.6 million people to 1.1 million from October, ending support for roughly 500,000 Palestinians because funding has fallen by more than half from 2025 levels. The cuts include smaller ration box deliveries, reduced cash stipends for market purchases, and fewer hot meals at community kitchens, WFP country director Shaun Hughes said. Two thirds of Gaza’s population now face crisis levels of food insecurity, and 200,000 people are at emergency IPC phase four, one step away from famine. The WFP says it needs more than 300 million pounds over the next six months to restore and maintain critical programmes in Palestine. A UNICEF survey cited by reports found one in eight children in Gaza are chronically malnourished or stunted. The agency and aid workers warn that this winter will deepen hunger and that large-scale humanitarian assistance will be required until reconstruction and economic recovery are launched.

Saul Staniforth

@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

"The World Food Programme says its being forced to drastically reduce live saving assistance to Gaza due to funding shortages. The number of people the UN agency helps in the Palestinian territory will be slashed by half a million people.."

515h ago

Bernie Twomey6

With so much wealth in the world and this is happening is obscene and tragic.

isosolies.bsky.social5

Holy fuck, the occupiers should be feeding the occupied. The fact that they're not demonstrates their genocidal intent.

CapriPAN3

Disgusting Meanwhile Trump endorses Nethenyahu Surprised Not 000000000000000000.1 %

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Tony Tagliatelle11

What's the government going to do about this? bsky.app/profile/saul...

Corner5

Looks a bit genocide-y to me.

His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺2

@andyburnham.bsky.social @jackabbott.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @johnswinney.bsky.social @lsrplaid.bsky.social The UK could 🚅pay the necessary 🚅Stop Israel restricting aid 🚅Stop providing support to Israel 🚅 Stop helping undermine international Law and the UN

Josie Glausiusz

@josiegz.bsky.social

The UN World Food Programme has said funding shortages are forcing major cuts to its aid programme ‌in Gaza, leaving about 500,000 people without monthly food support in a territory where two-thirds of the population struggle to get enough to eat. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

132h ago

Ed Wilson

@eddwilson.bsky.social

Anna Foster asks the World Food Programme if it is pushing hard enough to feed Gazans. Perhaps if the BBC covered the horror of the second year of a Gaza "ceasefire" there might be a bit more pressure overall. #R4Today

267h ago

Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙

@philildo.bsky.social

World Food Programme announced it's cutting back on food + aid to Gaza ( #R4Today). They've had their funding reduced by 50% in 2026. A stark reminder that Israel is even blocking Gazans from fishing in the sea. People are suffering because Israel is not being pressured. Feck Israel #FreePalestine

117h ago

Kate Vasey

@katevasey.bsky.social

This is a disaster for the people of Gaza, they've been abandoned by the world yet again. How can there not be funding for this when wealthy countries like Spain and Ireland acknowledge the ongoing genocide? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

53h ago

Aron Lund

@aronlund.bsky.social

When international attention moves elsewhere, so does funding: WFP cuts aid for Palestinians in Gaza, leaving 500,000 without monthly food assistance. @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

14h ago

Kriszta Satori

@fulelo.bsky.social

#BBCNews - Funding shortages force World Food Programme to cut aid to Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

26h ago

Formerly Bohemian Gypsy

@expatineu.bsky.social

Fun Fact: "In 2025, U.S. humanitarian ⁠funding to the UN fell to about $3.38 billion from $14.1 billion a year earlier after major spending cuts by the Trump admin" ~ Reuters app.ekkow.com/148485121868...

13h ago

Palestine News

@palestinenews.smitsky.nl

Cuts force World Food Programme to end support for half a million Palestinians in Gaza #palestine #theguardian

13h ago

jeff hunt#FBPE 🇪🇺

@jeff14.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com This summer, WFP programmes helped feed three-quarters of Gaza’s population, about 1.6 million people, but funding has fallen by more than half from 2025 levels.🤬🤬🤬

12h ago

EleriTudor

@eleritudor.bsky.social

The people of Gaza seem dispensible to the rest of the world. I wonder if Netanyahu and co have got anyone in the WFP pushing this decision?

15h ago

academiclogic1.bsky.social

@academiclogic1.bsky.social

The UN needs donations to fund food for starving children in GAZA www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

11h ago

New School of the Anthropocene

@nsota.bsky.social

Famine in Gaze: engineered by the supposedly non-racist Israeli Zionists; sustained by the vicious right-wing authors of government policy across the US, UK and Europe - cf. the biggest economies im history.

12h ago