WFP halves Gaza food parcels and cuts hot meals
Shrinking donations leave families with less food and fewer daily meals.
Overview
The is cutting regular food aid for 500,000 people in Gaza, reducing the number served from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. The change is not because hunger has eased. About two-thirds of Gaza’s people still face severe or crisis-level food shortages. Families will get one instead of two, less flour, and fewer ration boxes. will drop from 250,000 to 150,000 a day. Some hard-to-reach areas will receive meals every other day. will also fall for about 75,000 families.
WFP says it received less than half its usual 2026 funding. Access limits, high costs and other global emergencies are also making aid harder to deliver. It needs $450 million through March 2027 for vital work in Gaza and the West Bank. Until more money comes, aid will focus on people considered most at risk, leaving many others with less help while hunger remains widespread.
Timeline
WFP requests 450 million dollars to sustain critical operations for six months
WFP said it urgently needed 450 million dollars for operations in from October 2026 through March 2027. Without additional funding, the agency warned that reduced assistance would remain in place while humanitarian needs continued.
WFP says donor shortages and rising operating pressures created the Gaza aid gap
WFP said its received less than half its usual 2026 funding. Access constraints, high operating costs, competing global emergencies and donor shortages limited the agency’s ability to sustain its previous level of food distribution.
WFP cuts cash assistance for 75,000 families while targeting fewer recipients
The new measures included cash-assistance cuts affecting about 75,000 families. continued combining food and cash aid for 1.1 million people, but reduced transfer values and a smaller caseload forced more restrictive targeting.
WFP cuts daily hot meals from 250,000 to 150,000 in Gaza
reduced daily hot-meal production from 250,000 to 150,000 meals. The cuts particularly affected people unable to cook, while some residents in hard-to-reach areas received a hot meal only every other day.
WFP halves household food parcels and reduces flour allocations in Gaza
Families that previously received two were reduced to one. WFP also reduced flour-bag sizes and cut the number of people receiving flour and ration boxes each month from about 1.1 million to 600,000.
WFP cuts monthly Gaza assistance from 1.6 million to 1.1 million people
WFP announced that funding shortages would reduce its from 1.6 million to 1.1 million people. About 500,000 Palestinians consequently lost regular monthly WFP food support, although the agency continued assisting the people it judged most vulnerable.
WFP expands monthly Gaza assistance to about 1.6 million people after the ceasefire
WFP reached about 1.6 million people in Gaza each month with food and cash assistance after the . This caseload became the for the agency’s later funding decisions.
WFP cuts cash assistance for some half a million Gaza residents
WFP reported that for some 500,000 people had been reduced since July amid funding shortages, leaving recipients with less money to buy food in local markets.
Food insecurity remains acute for roughly two-thirds of Gaza’s population
About two-thirds of Gaza’s population remained acutely or crisis-level food insecure as prepared its cuts. The funding reduction therefore came while severe need persisted rather than after the humanitarian emergency had eased.