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Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens

·November 12, 2025·2 min read

A report released by the two UN agencies on Tuesday identifies six that are at the highest risk of famine or catastrophic hunger: Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Mali, Haiti, and Yemen. In these areas, some communities are projected to reach famine or near-famine conditions.Other countries of very high concern include the...

Gaza: Aid teams race to push back hunger; one million food parcels delivered

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·November 5, 2025·2 min read

Last month, hundreds of thousands of people returned to northern Gaza – where famine was declared at the end of August – but their access to food is “severely limited”, said Abeer Etefa, Senior Spokesperson at the World Food Programme (WFP). And while many returnees have found their homes in...

UN warns Gaza’s displaced face freezing nights and food shortages

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·October 24, 2025·1 min read

Since the ceasefire on 10 October, the UN migration agency IOM has dispatched more than 47,000 relief items, including 2,500 tents, to help families rebuild amid devastation. “People in Gaza have endured unimaginable loss,” said IOM Director General Amy Pope. Shelter ‘not a luxury’ “Shelter isn’t a luxury; it allows...

‘Overwhelming’ demand for food aid in Gaza as fragile ceasefire holds

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·October 21, 2025·2 min read

Abeer Etefa, Senior Regional Communications Officer for the World Food Programme (WFP) told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that since the ceasefire took hold on 11 October the agency has been able to bring in over 6,700 metric tonnes of food – enough for close to half a million people...

UN urges opening of all Gaza crossings to deliver three-month food supply

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·October 17, 2025·3 min read

The agency says it already has enough supplies in place to feed the entire population of the Strip for three months – if full access is granted by Israel. One week into the fragile ceasefire, WFP has been bringing in an average of 560 tonnes of food each day. “The...

World Food Day LIVE: The task of feeding the world

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·October 16, 2025·1 min read

Amid the destruction of the Second World War, nations responded to the danger of hunger and malnutrition by creating the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 16 October 1945. The UN agency celebrates this achievement as World Food Day every year on its birthday, recognizing the work of all those...

Hunger lines in Gaza: ‘Food is not enough’

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·August 2, 2025·5 min read

Earning a living has become a daily struggle, and hundreds of men, women and children stand in endless queues, under the scorching sun, outside the few community kitchens that serve nothing but lentil soup. A community kitchen in western Gaza reveals a panorama of painful scenes amid displaced people suffering,...

Gaza: Nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed while seeking food, as UN warns airdrops are no solution

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·August 2, 2025·1 min read

Between 30 and 31 July alone, 105 Palestinians were killed and at least 680 more injured along the convoy routes in the Zikim area in North Gaza, southern Khan Younis, and in the vicinity of the GHF sites in Middle Gaza and Rafah, the office (OHCHR) said in a press...

‘Delivering better’: New ECOSOC president emphasises climate action, food security

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·August 1, 2025·2 min read

Mr. Thapa said that the motto of his presidency will be “Delivering Better,” which requires strengthening partnerships and multilateralism to achieve more effective implementation of initiatives, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “Delivering better is not an option — it is an imperative. It is our pathway to...

Gaza: 875 people confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks

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·July 15, 2025·3 min read

“As of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites,” said Thameen Al-Kheetan, OHCHR spokesperson, referencing the US-Israeli run private organization which has bypassed regular humanitarian operations. The remaining 201 victims were...

Gazans dying in search of food, ‘starkest illustration’ of their desperation

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·July 13, 2025·3 min read

“The fact that people are now dying every day trying to get food, I think is the starkest illustration of how desperate the situation is,” said Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director at the UN agency, briefing journalists on his fourth visit to the war-torn enclave. Earlier this year, food security...

Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel

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·June 27, 2025·2 min read

“Definitely, people get shot,” said Gaza-based medic Dr. Luca Pigozzi, WHO Emergency Medical Team Coordinator. “They are victim of blast injuries as well and bodily injuries.” The WHO official’s comments follow reports of another mass casualty incident on Thursday, this time involving a strike on a market in the central city...