World Food Programme cuts Gaza food aid

The World Food Programme is cutting monthly food aid in the Gaza Strip. The cut affects about 500000 people. The reason given is funding shortages. The aid is monthly food assistance.

Recipients are being reduced from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. The difference named in the report is the group of about 500000 people losing this monthly aid. The starting recipient figure is 1.6 million. The new recipient figure is 1.1 million.

Gaza is the place. The agency is the World Food Programme. The commodity of the programme is food aid. The frequency named is monthly.

Funding shortages are the stated cause. The report does not name a new donor that has replaced the gap. It states the reduction in people reached. It states the two recipient totals.

The cut is a reduction in who receives the monthly parcel of aid. It is not described as the end of all food operations. The remaining recipient number is 1.1 million. The number coming off the list is about 500000.

The recorded food-aid decision is the cut. The place is the Gaza Strip. The cause is funding. The scale is the change from 1.6 million recipients to 1.1 million.