Overview
- WFP reports delivering roughly 20,000 metric tons of food since Oct 10, opening 44 of a planned 145 distribution sites and supporting 17 bakeries that now provide bread to about 700,000 people daily.
- Only the Kerem Shalom and Kissufim crossings are receiving WFP trucks, and OCHA says no direct food convoys have reached northern Gaza via northern crossings since Sept 12.
- The agency says only about half the required food has entered, with many households surviving on cereals and pulses as fuel shortages force over 60% of people to cook by burning waste.
- Israel says it is meeting a 600-trucks-per-day target under the truce, while Gaza’s local administration reports about 145 trucks reach destinations daily and the UN no longer issues routine truck tallies.
- Aid groups warn winter shelter is gravely insufficient, with NRC estimating 1.5 million people need shelter and large consignments of tents and tarpaulins awaiting Israeli approvals.