With the fragile truce still in place in Gauzehis organization UN which is responsible for providing humanitarian aid and food to the residents of the Palestinian enclave has again requested that all crossing points be opened to strengthen its effort.
In particular, the World Food Program (WFP) of the UN announced today (04.11.2025) that approximately 1 million people have received significant humanitarian aid and food since the beginning of the ceasefire in Gaza.
«Three and a half weeks after the ceasefire in Gaza, we have distributed food packages to around one million people across the Gaza StripAbir Etefa, WFP representative, told reporters in Geneva.
“However, to expand our operations to the required level and in accordance with our commitments, we need better access, mainly to more border crossings and to the main road arteries inside Gaza,” she stressed, reiterating that WFP aims to reach a total of 1.6 million people.
#Gaza: Three weeks into the ceasefire, WFP has reached 1 million people with family food parcels. It’s the first round of regular food parcel distributions since April.
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“We continue to have at our disposal only two border crossing points in operation,” Etefa added, calling for the opening of passages to the northern part of the enclave “to stabilize markets and meet the needs of the population.”
As he pointed out, while “food consumption has increased somewhat thanks to humanitarian aid and the passage of commercial trucks,” it “remains well below pre-conflict levels.”
Furthermore, there is not much variety in what residents consume in this phase: “Households consume mainly cereals and pulses. Meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits are very rarely eaten.”
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WFP currently has 44 food aid distribution points operating in Gaza, against a target of 145, she said, adding that about 700,000 people receive daily fresh breadavailable from 17 WFP-supported industrial bakeries, nine in southern and central Gaza and eight in the north.
At the same time, the WFP stated that 200,000 people in Gaza now receive e-voucherswhich allow them to buy food and basic products on local markets.
Israel cut off aid to the Gaza Strip several times during the war, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian conditions. Before the ceasefire, the UN had declared famine conditions in some areas of the Palestinian enclave.