One year after Israel’s months-long siege pushed Gaza into widespread famine, a devastating new cut to United Nations food assistance has spread terror and uncertainty across the enclave’s 2.2 million residents, most of whom are already displaced from their destroyed homes. The World Food Programme (WFP) announced earlier this week that it will slash critical food aid by one third across Gaza, a reduction driven by crippling global funding shortages that will leave 500,000 vulnerable people completely cut off from life-sustaining support. For already displaced families surviving on the brink of collapse, the cuts have reawakened the trauma of last year’s famine and stoked urgent fears of a catastrophic return to mass hunger.
