Funding Cuts Force UN's WFP to Halve West Bank Aid Recipients
The agency said 76% of West Bank households saw income fall as rural families and southern governorates face the sharpest food insecurity.
- On Tuesday, The World Food Programme announced it is slashing West Bank aid recipients in half, reducing assistance from 400,000 to 200,000 people effective this month.
- Shaun Hughes, the agency's representative in the Palestinian territories, told reporters in Geneva that food needs in the West Bank have more than doubled compared to two years ago.
- The WFP's latest analysis found that 76 percent of households in the West Bank experienced a significant income decline, forcing many families to sell assets and reduce meal quality.
- Since the Gaza war began in October 2023, intensified Israeli military operations and settler violence have eroded Palestinian livelihoods, contributing to rising food insecurity in the West Bank.
- Food insecurity was not traditionally a major problem in the West Bank, but a third of families now cannot afford a nutritious diet due to the deteriorating economy.
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Geneva, 1 Sep (EFE).- The World Food Programme (WFP), the main humanitarian arm of the United Nations in the world, announced this Tuesday that it is forced to reduce by half the number of people who attend food in the West Bank, because it is running out of money.This happens in [...] The entry UN Agency is forced to halve food aid in the West Bank was first published in HolaNews.
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WFP will halve West Bank food assistance as it faces possible new cuts in Gaza
The United Nations' food agency is halving food assistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank due to severe funding shortages. The U.N.
This occurs at a time when the food needs of the population in that occupied Palestinian territory have doubled since 2023, coinciding with the outbreak of the armed conflict in Gaza
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Funding cuts force UN's WFP to halve West Bank aid recipients
The United Nations agency will only be able to assist 200,000 people, while food needs in the Territory have more than doubled in two years.
"We are running out of funds, which means that as of today, some 200,000 people will no longer have access to vital aid," said one representative of the organisation.
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