WFP will halve West Bank food assistance as it faces possible new cuts in Gaza

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has announced it will halve food assistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank due to severe funding shortages and warned of potential further cuts in Gaza, where it supports 1.5 million people. The agency will reduce assistance from 400,000 people to 200,000 in the West Bank starting this month.

Currently, 900,000 people in the West Bank are food insecure. In July, WFP cut cash assistance by 40% for 375,000 people in Gaza, and additional cuts are expected unless new funding is secured. WFP urgently needs $386 million over the next six months to assist food-insecure people in both regions. The situation in Gaza has improved since famine was declared last year, but conditions remain at crisis levels.

Increased violence, displacement, and economic deterioration have disrupted livelihoods and deepened hunger in both regions.