New York - Saba:
The World Food Programme confirmed on Tuesday that there is an "urgent need" to increase aid to the Gaza Strip to reach "the starving before it is too late," noting that "hunger is spreading rapidly" in Gaza.
The entire population of the Gaza Strip faces high levels of acute food insecurity amid the ongoing genocidal war and the Israeli blockade, according to a UN report.This came in a joint report on "Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025," issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the World Health Organization.
According to the UN report, Palestine (the Gaza Strip) is among the countries where the largest proportion of the population faces high levels of acute food insecurity.
In the Gaza Strip, 100% of the population faces high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the report.
It also indicated that approximately two million people in five countries and regions faced Level 5 hunger according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) scale in 2024, indicating that more than half of these people (approximately 1,106,900 people) are in the Gaza Strip.The UN report confirmed that this number is nearly double the estimated 576,000 people at the end of 2023, confirming that this is the highest percentage recorded in the history of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) scale for any country or region.
The World Food Programme said there is an "urgent need" to increase aid to the Gaza Strip to reach "the starving before it's too late."
This came in a post on the X platform today, in which the UN programme noted that "hunger is spreading rapidly" in Gaza.
It added: "There is an urgent need for a massive increase in food aid to the Gaza Strip to reach all the starving people throughout the Strip, before it's too late."
It stated that it has enough food stocks for all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for three months, stressing the need for Israel to allow this aid to enter.
It called for more food aid trucks to enter the Strip through all crossings, and for more lanes within the Strip for trucks to pass through to reduce delays in reaching all starving Palestinians in the Strip.