UN food agency cuts aid to 5,00,000 Palestinians in Gaza amid funding shortage

• The UN World Food Programme will cut aid to 5,00,000 Palestinians in Gaza due to funding shortages, it said on October 19.
The WFP said funding for its Palestine operation in 2026 is less than half of what it received in previous years.
Monthly food aid recipients in Gaza will fall from 1.6 million to 1.1 million amid funding cuts, the WFP said.

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