{"id":307749,"date":"2025-05-23T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=307749"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:47:15","slug":"wfp-statement-23may25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/wfp-statement-23may25\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP Statement &#8211; Escalating hunger and insecurity undermine food aid in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>23 May 2025<\/p>\n<div class=\"summary mb4\">15 World Food Programme trucks were looted late last night in Southern Gaza, while en route to WFP-supported bakeries. These trucks were transporting critical food supplies for hungry populations waiting anxiously for assistance.<\/div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Hunger, desperation, and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming, is contributing to rising insecurity. We need support from the Israeli authorities to get far greater volumes of food assistance into Gaza faster, more consistently, and transported along safer routes, as was done during the ceasefire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">WFP cannot safely operate under a distribution system that limits the number of bakeries and sites where Gaza\u2019s population can access food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">WFP and its partners must also be allowed\u00a0<\/span>to distribute wheat flour and food parcels directly to families<span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0&#8211; the most effective way to prevent widespread starvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">As WFP has said\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/fresh-bread-returns-first-time-over-two-months-limited-supplies-reach-bakeries-overnight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">previously<\/span><\/a><\/em><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">, two million people are facing extreme hunger and famine without immediate action.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 23 May 2025 15 World Food Programme trucks were looted late last night in Southern Gaza, while en route to WFP-supported bakeries. These trucks were transporting critical food supplies for hungry populations waiting anxiously for assistance. Hunger, desperation, and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming, is contributing to rising insecurity. We need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/wfp-statement-23may25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2109],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,2005,6870,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-307749","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-world-food-programme-wfp","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307768,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307749\/revisions\/307768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=307749"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=307749"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=307749"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=307749"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=307749"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=307749"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=307749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}