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UN Warns of Famine as Gaza Food Stocks Fully Depleted Under Israeli Blockade

The World Food Programme has exhausted all supplies, leaving Gaza’s population without critical aid after nearly eight weeks of closed crossings.

FILE PHOTO: A girl puts a pot to her head as Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo
People crowd to receive charity meals from a kitchen in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, as aid groups warn of famine
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Overview

  • The World Food Programme announced on April 25 that it had delivered its final food stocks to Gaza's hot-meal kitchens, which will run out of food within days.
  • Israel's blockade, ongoing since March 2, has halted all humanitarian and commercial supplies, marking the longest closure in Gaza's history.
  • More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid, enough to feed one million people for four months, remain stuck at the border due to the blockade.
  • Food prices in Gaza have surged by 1,400%, leaving most families unable to afford basic necessities, with widespread hunger and malnutrition escalating.
  • International leaders, including the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and the UK, have called for the blockade's end, warning of mass starvation and humanitarian collapse.