WFP cuts Gaza food aid for about 500,000 people, citing funding shortfall

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is cutting its monthly food aid in Gaza from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million, citing funding shortages. France 24 reports that about 500,000 people will be left without critical food aid. BBC News describes the drop as about a third.

ABC News reports the agency says it has fed around 1.6 million people every month since the ceasefire was announced last year.

The WFP says two thirds of Gaza's population remains acutely food insecure, according to France 24 and Deutsche Welle. The Guardian reports that 200,000 people are in danger of famine. It says the WFP's director for Palestine warned that the cuts are likely to deepen hunger this winter.

Al Jazeera reports the agency says the shortfall threatens to reverse "modest and fragile" progress on food security. Al Jazeera's Jerusalem Daily roundup says Israeli strikes killed Palestinians in Gaza as the funding shortage threatens aid for half a million people. The excerpt gives no figures for the dead.

The Guardian also reports that more than a year after a Trump-brokered ceasefire took effect, promised reconstruction has not begun. It says jobs are few and most people in Gaza still rely on aid to eat.