Gaza Herald – Food access in Gaza has improved two months into the ceasefire. Still, living conditions remain devastating, United Nations officials said, warning that hunger has eased while humanitarian suffering persists.
Speaking from Gaza, the World Food Programme’s representative for Palestine said the return of basic food distributions helped save lives, including a malnourished pregnant woman who safely gave birth after receiving nutritional support. WFP reported reaching more than one million Palestinians with food aid, while hundreds of thousands received preventive nutrition through joint programs with UNICEF.
Despite these gains, UN officials stressed that food alone was not enough. Families continued to live in flooded tents, surrounded by cold, rain, and extreme deprivation. Many displaced Palestinians were forced to cook using trash and scrap wood, while children and vulnerable people faced worsening health risks due to unsafe shelter and poor sanitation.
Humanitarian agencies warned that Israeli restrictions continued to obstruct aid delivery, particularly in northern Gaza. While limited progress was made by opening new distribution points, the UN cautioned that new Israeli policies targeting international NGOs threatened to undermine relief operations and push Gaza’s fragile humanitarian response toward collapse.
The UN and its partners called on the international community to pressure Israel to remove barriers to aid, emphasizing that survival in Gaza remained precarious even as food supplies slowly improved under siege-like conditions.
