WFP Provides Food Parcels to 10,000 Displaced Families in Rafah

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) distributed food parcels to 10,000 displaced families in refugee relief camps in Rafah.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that some 200 community leaders were identified to collect assistance on behalf of surrounding families in their communities, with each parcel covering a family’s food needs for 10 days.

In a post on social platform X, WFP representative in Palestine Samer AbdelJaber said: “Incredible to see the collab[oration] between the team and communities as we race against time to deliver life-saving food in Gaza.”

Last week, humanitarians raised alarm that more than one in four households in Gaza were enduring “catastrophic” hunger.

The risk of famine occurring in the Strip within the next six months said the UN, citing the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which showed that the entire population of Gaza, some 2.2 million people, is living with “crisis or worse” levels of acute food insecurity.