A boy walks with a pot of food he received after queueing for charity meals given out during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Gaza City on March 22, 2025. Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP
Rome: The UN's World Food Programme warned Thursday it had only two weeks' worth of food left in Gaza, where "hundreds of thousands of people" are at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition.
"WFP has approximately 5,700 tons of food stocks left in Gaza -- enough to support WFP operations for a maximum of two weeks," the Rome-based agency said in a statement.
Israel resumed military operations in the Palestinian territory just over a week ago, shattering weeks of relative calm brought by a ceasefire.
The United Nations said on Wednesday that the renewed Israeli operations had displaced 142,000 people in just seven days, and warned of dwindling supplies after Israel resumed a block on humanitarian aid entering Gaza.
WFP said Thursday that it and others in the food security sector had been "unable to bring new food supplies into Gaza for more than three weeks".
"Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition as humanitarian food stocks in the Strip dwindle and borders remain closed to aid," it said.
"Meanwhile, the expansion of military activity in Gaza is severely disrupting food assistance operations and putting the lives of aid workers at risk every day", WFP added.
The agency said that due to the deteriorating security situation and rapid displacement of people, it will "distribute as much food as possible, as quickly as possible".
It is reducing individual rations so the agency can feed more people overall. It plans to distribute food parcels to half a million people, meaning the packages will feed a family for roughly one week, it said.
