Safe Access Needed to Deliver Food in Gaza

Fifteen World Food Programme (WFP) trucks were looted late last night in southern Gaza, while the trucks were en route to WFP-supported bakeries. These trucks were transporting critical food supplies for populations waiting anxiously for assistance.

Hunger, desperation and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming is contributing to rising insecurity. We need support from the Israeli authorities to get far greater volumes of food assistance into Gaza faster, more consistently, and transported along safer routes, as was done during the ceasefire.

WFP cannot safely operate under a distribution system that limits the number of bakeries and sites where Gaza’s population can access food. 

WFP and its partners must also be allowed to distribute wheat flour and food packages directly to families – the most effective way to prevent widespread starvation.

As WFP has said previously, 2 million people are facing extreme hunger and famine without immediate action.