WFP to cut monthly aid for 500,000 people in Gaza

Funding shortfall will reduce the number of Palestinians receiving food or cash assistance to 1.1 million, while humanitarian needs remain acute

By   AGENCY
19 Oct 2026 03:26pm
Palestinian school children are ushered away from the site of an Israeli drone strike that reportedly killed one Palestinian in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2026. Despite a US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October 2025, violence has not halted in the Gaza Strip, with Israel continuing to target Palestinians it says are militants. -AFP Photo
Palestinian school children are ushered away from the site of an Israeli drone strike that reportedly killed one Palestinian in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2026. Despite a US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October 2025, violence has not halted in the Gaza Strip, with Israel continuing to target Palestinians it says are militants. -AFP Photo

BEIT HANINA, Palestinian Territories – The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday it would cut monthly assistance to 500,000 people in Gaza due to a funding shortfall, warning that humanitarian needs remained acute.

“As of this month, we’re now cutting half a million people from the number of people that we’re assisting,” WFP country director Shaun Hughes told AFP.

The cuts will reduce the number of Palestinians receiving WFP assistance, either in food or cash, to 1.1 million — still roughly half of Gaza’s war-battered population. –AFP

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