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🇵🇸 Half a million people in Gaza are about to lose their food aid, right as winter sets in.
The World Food Program says a funding gap is forcing it to cut the number of people it feeds from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.
Community kitchens will drop from 250,000 hot meals a day to 150,000, and families in the hardest-to-reach areas will now eat EVERY OTHER day.
The reason comes down to money, with the WFP receiving less than half its usual funding for Gaza this year.
Markets in Gaza are stocked, but with more than 80% of people out of work, few can afford to buy anything.
Cooking gas still isn't allowed in, so children are sent out to collect plastic and cardboard to burn just to bake bread.
The agency says it needs $450 million to keep going for the next 6 months.
Source: BBC / Writer: Julie
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Mike R @MikeRouah ·
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The BBC obediently repeats Hamas propaganda as if it were fact.
The assertion that 80 percent of Gazans are unemployed, itself a grotesque exaggeration, and that this somehow leaves almost nobody able to purchase basic necessities, is nothing but pure Hamas propaganda.
Humanitarian aid from international organisations exists to be given freely, not sold for profit. That is why it is called aid rather than commercial goods.
Hamas seizes these supplies and sells them at inflated prices, which is precisely why some Gazans go short.
The majority of the population nevertheless has adequate food and basic essentials.
