October 23, 2026

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500,000 Palestinians in Gaza lose access to WFP food assistance | ABC NEWS


The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest single supplier of humanitarian food assistance in the Gaza Strip, reaching about 1.6 million people every month since the October 2025 ceasefire with Israel.

But now an estimated 500,000 people will lose out as the organisation undergoes a series of cost-cutting measures aimed at reducing its caseload by a third.

By Middle East correspondent Caitlin Kelly.

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