Gaza Herald – The UN World Food Programme said that food aid entering Gaza since the October ceasefire remained far below what was needed to sustain a population devastated by Israel’s ongoing genocide. Despite limited inflows, the humanitarian gap continued to widen as winter conditions worsened.
The agency reported that heavy rainfall had damaged and washed away food stored by families in makeshift shelters, making it even harder for displaced Palestinians to secure enough to eat as temperatures dropped.
Since the ceasefire began, 40,000 tons of food aid were delivered, reaching only about 530,000 people out of the 1.6 million who urgently needed assistance, leaving more than a million Palestinians without reliable access to food.
While some markets had shown partial improvement, food prices remained extremely high. A single chicken cost $25, pushing families to depend almost entirely on humanitarian aid for survival.
Mothers told the UN that they avoided taking their children to the market to spare them the pain of seeing food they could not afford, stressing the urgent need to expand aid to protect the health and nutrition of Gaza’s families.
