EMERGENCY IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK
The situation inside the Gaza Strip has once again reached a breaking point. Families urgently need food.
A HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE
In the 42 days of the ceasefire, when aid supplies were allowed into Gaza, the World Food Programme (WFP) significantly scaled up assistance and reached 1.3 million people.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza remains critical. Families across the Gaza Strip are at risk of famine as fighting has surged again, border crossings are still closed and food is dangerously scarce. Millions of people are homeless and fully dependent on food assistance.
Nearly 5 million people live in Gaza and the West Bank.
Enough food to feed 1 million people is positioned at aid corridors and is ready to be brought into Gaza.
Over 90% of Gaza’s population is facing crisis levels of hunger.
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SEE HOW WFP IS RESPONDING TO THE HUNGER CRISIS IN GAZA
Jan 19, 2025
The first WFP trucks have started crossing from Egypt into Gaza after the ceasefire came into effect. WFP aims to get at least 150 trucks into Gaza on a daily basis if conditions allow. This is a critical moment for the international community to reach desperate and hungry families in Gaza at scale after 15 months of war.
Oct 17, 2024
A new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report projects that over the coming months, 1.95 million people in Gaza (91% of the population) will face acute food insecurity. The risk of famine will persist throughout Gaza this winter unless fighting stops and more humanitarian aid reaches families.
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Apr 13, 2024
Gazans in the north are tasting bread for the first time in over six months after WFP supplied four bakeries with fuel enough for 4-5 days and wheat flour. Across Gaza, WFP now supports 16 bakeries with wheat flour, yeast, salt, sugar and fuel.
To continue supporting these bakeries, WFP needs safe, sustained and scaled-up access to deliver a regular supply of aid.
Feb 21, 2024
With the Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, WFP calls for 10 requirements to be met to avoid an even worse catastrophe including: an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, reliable entry points that would allow aid in from all possible crossings and security assurances to distribute aid across Gaza.
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Feb 20, 2024
On February 20, WFP temporarily pauses food deliveries to northern Gaza until conditions are in place that allow for safe distributions. The decision is not taken lightly. WFP is committed to reaching people across Gaza but the safety and security to deliver critical food aid – and for the people receiving it – must be ensured.
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Feb 2024
In the first half of February, WFP reached 1.3 million people in Gaza with food assistance. In addition to emergency food aid, WFP also continues to provide bakeries with wheat flour and distribute special food supplements to help children fend off malnutrition.
Dec 21, 2023
A new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report confirms that the entire population of Gaza is in crisis or worse levels of acute hunger, and there is a risk of famine unless access to adequate food, clean water, health and sanitation services is restored. The IPC report also finds that a quarter of Gaza’s population – more than half a million people – are starving.
Photo: WFP/Arete/Abood al Sayd/2023
Dec 20, 2023
The first direct aid convoy from Jordan reaches the Gaza Strip since October 7. The 46-truck convoy, organized by WFP and the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, carried more than 1,650,000 pounds of lifesaving food into Gaza.
Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah/2024
Nov 2023
A pause in the fighting allows WFP to deliver desperately needed food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza.
By the end of November, WFP reached a total of 825,858 people with emergency food and electronic food vouchers across Gaza and the West Bank. In Gaza alone, WFP had reached 759,082 people.
Oct 21, 2023
The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opens and enables a first convoy of trucks to bring in urgently needed food, water and other supplies provided by the Egyptian Red Crescent and the United Nations for hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza who are struggling amid desperate conditions.
Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah/2023
Oct 2023
WFP begins providing emergency food assistance to people in shelters in Gaza. With the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), WFP starts distributing fresh bread and canned food to around 73,000 people in shelters.
Hunger was already alarmingly high before the conflict intensified, with one third of people in Gaza and the West Bank – 1.8 million – experiencing food insecurity.
HOW WE’RE HELPING FAMILIES
The World Food Programme has worked in Gaza for decades. Our assistance is critical to averting the further deterioration of this dire humanitarian crisis.
During the ceasefire earlier this year, WFP distributed food assistance, restocked bakeries, delivered nutrition supplements for mothers and children and provided cash to help people secure essential needs and revive the local economy.
What’s Happening in Gaza?
We are providing food assistance as quickly as we can to women, children and families impacted by the conflict. Please help send food today.