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05 July 2025<\/p>\n
Here are the latest updates on food insecurity and WFP operations in Gaza, including quotes from WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Carl Skau, who is currently in Palestine:<\/p>\n
WFP Operations inside Gaza<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Since 21 May, when border crossings re-opened to limited amounts of aid, WFP teams have been able to dispatch dozens of aid convoys with more than 1,200 trucks carrying 18,247 metric tons (MT) of food aid inside Gaza. Despite these efforts, the food delivered to date is still a tiny fraction of what a population of over two million people need to survive. Food Needs Inside Gaza<\/strong> Requirements to Scale Operations<\/strong> <\/p>\n Note to editor<\/strong><\/p>\n WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Carl Skau, visited Gaza City on 1-2 July, talking to families there and assessing the humanitarian situation. The following quotes may be attributed to him: \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOur WFP teams in Gaza are doing heroic work under conditions that are simply impossible. They are frequently caught in cross-fire, they are stuck in steaming hot cars for 24 hours straight, escorting food convoys through combat zones. We don\u2019t have enough fuel for our vehicles, or spare parts for our trucks or cars, or basic equipment to communicate. And our national staff are not just aid workers\u2014they live here, they face the same dangers, the same hunger as the rest of the population. We can\u2019t continue in these conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA ceasefire is urgently needed. We stand ready to deliver – we have the food, the capacity and the systems to assist the entire population in Gaza. During the previous ceasefire, we showed what was possible: delivering over 8,000 trucks of food in only 42 days. We can do it again, but we need all routes and entry points to open, and we need safety and order to be able to reach most vulnerable. The ceasefire must also be the first step toward lasting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 05 July 2025 GAZA, Palestine \u2013 The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ World Food Programme (WFP) continues to deliver life-saving food assistance inside Gaza despite deteriorating security, limited access, and growing desperation of communities in need of food assistance. A recent WFP assessment shows nearly one person in three is not eating for days, placing more people at […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2109],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,2057,2005,6870,1745,1841],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-308853","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-world-food-programme-wfp","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","document-subject-women","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308855,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308853\/revisions\/308855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=308853"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=308853"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=308853"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=308853"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=308853"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=308853"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=308853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The breakdown of the food aid brought into Gaza includes (as of 03 July):
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012,275 MT of wheat flour for bread
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05,828 MT of ready to eat rations
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0113 MT of emergency nutritional supplies
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a030 MT of yeast for baking
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0While most trucks carrying food assistance into Gaza have been intercepted by hungry civilian communities, WFP has been able to conduct some direct distributions. These include:
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Food aid distributed directly to 24,649 people (5,357 households).
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nutrition prevention assistance to 102,544 children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women across 92 active distribution sites.
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nutritional supplements to 11,125 people.
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In addition, 250,000 meals were also provided in June through 72 community kitchens by food security partners.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Israeli authorities have provided written assurances that operating conditions inside Gaza will improve, and that more trucks will be able to carry food aid into Gaza.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The assurances also include the use of more routes and border crossing points with faster clearances, dependable communications, and without armed forces near convoys.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In agreement with Israeli authorities, WFP\u2019s target is to bring 2,000 MT of food aid into Gaza every day (1,000 MT to the north, 1,000 MT to the south).
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WFP stands ready to scale up food assistance into Gaza if a ceasefire comes into effect. We have experienced teams on the ground, and proven systems in place to respond at scale.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0During the recent ceasefire, WFP facilitated nearly 40 percent of all humanitarian aid that entered Gaza, including 8,000 trucks of food, which helped push back the tide of hunger. The agency stands ready to do this again.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WFP has over 140,000 metric tons of food in or on its way to the region – enough to feed the entire population of 2.1 million people for two months.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Inside Gaza, the fear of starvation and desperate need for food remains high.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A recent WFP assessment found nearly one person in three is not eating for days at a time.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Findings from the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, show a high risk that famine will occur as conflict persists and humanitarian agencies are unable to provide essential aid.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some 470,000 people are expected to face Catastrophic hunger (IPC Phase 5) between May and September of this year.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Malnutrition is surging and some 90,000 children and women urgently need treatment.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Food aid is the only real way for people to eat:
\no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Flour for bread is 3,000 times more expensive than before the war \u2013 23 euros per kilo of flour. And cooking fuel is simply nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WFP stands ready to scale up and deliver life-saving assistance directly to the most vulnerable families in need. For this, WFP urgently calls for:
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At least 100 aid trucks per day to be allowed through northern, central and southern border points.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Faster loading and dispatching of trucks from crossing points into Gaza.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No armed presence near convoy routes or civilian aid distribution points.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Uninterrupted connectivity to allow humanitarian organizations to coordinate effectively.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A sustained ceasefire that creates the necessary conditions for safe, scaled, and impactful humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n
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\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThis is my fourth visit to Gaza since the start of the conflict. The situation is the worst I\u2019ve ever seen. It\u2019s hard to find words to describe the level of desperation I have witnessed. People are dying just trying to get food. Our kitchens are empty; they are now serving hot water with a bit of pasta floating in it. A mother told me she had gone to a kitchen hoping to find a hot meal and fainted there. There was nothing to eat and she went home without anything for her children. A father I met had lost 25 kgs in the past two months. People are starving, while we have food just across the border.\u201d<\/p>\n