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STORY: WFP / GAZA FOOD AID
TRT: 03:26
SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10-20 NOVEMBER 2025, GAZA STRIP, GAZA CITY
16 NOVEMBER, GAZA CITY
1. Various shots, Gazans try to mop up and salvage their belongings after torrential rains
Heavy rain and falling temperatures are making life even harder for families living in tents and damaged buildings in Gaza. Flood waters have spoiled or washed away the food and supplies many families were storing. Overflowing sewage increases the risk of disease.
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najat:
“Everything is ruined—the firewood, the pasta, the rice. I threw them away because they were soaked in sewage. Whatever was hanging, I dried and saved, but the rest I threw away because it wasn’t safe to eat. I couldn’t take anything except a few things that were hanging.”
3. Various shots, Eyad and his sons struggle to re-deploy their collapsed tent
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Eyad:
“All the supplies are ruined, and the mattresses are damaged. Nothing is left. As you can see, the winter came with heavy rain, flooding everything. The mattresses, blankets, and food supplies like flour—all soaked and gone.”
5. Various shots, people trying to rebuild destroyed buildings
20 NOVEMBER 2025, DEIR AL BALAH
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Penner, WFP Spokesperson:
“The coming winter could be devastating for families living in Gaza. Most of them are living in tents or shelters or buildings like this one. We had a first taste of winter just a week ago. The rain came down hard and people lost their food. All the food that they'd supplied, their food was spoiled, they lost their belongings.”
14 NOVEMBER 2025, NUSEIRAT
7. Various shots, trucks arriving/unloading at WFP warehouse
In the month after the ceasefire came into effect, WFP brought in over 32,000 mt of food assistance into Gaza, just over two thirds of our monthly target. They are now up to 34,000.
10 NOVEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY
8. Various shots, WFP bread delivery
An average of 150-160,000 bread bundles (2kg) are being produced per day at 18 WFP-supported bakeries (nine of which are in the north). This meets our daily target. The bread is distributed through 400 distribution points across the Gaza Strip (including 70 shops). WFP continues to distribute food across Gaza in the form of food parcels, fresh bread, nutritious snacks to children in school, hot meals kitchens and special nutrition products to fight off malnutrition.
9. Various shots, WFP hot meals distribution
WFP is supporting 30 hot meals kitchens (11 in the south, 13 in the middle, and six in the north) producing about 200,000 meals per day. Our target is 400,000 daily meals. Hundreds of thousands of people remain in urgent need of food. Most are displaced from their homes; their food systems have been shattered and access to basic necessities is limited. The rains have made this situation worse.
20 NOVEMBER 2025, DEIR AL BALAH
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Penner, WFP Spokesperson:
“WFP is providing food parcels, we're providing hot meals in community kitchens, we're providing bread through bakeries and digital payments so that families that are really struggling can buy the food they need.
Keeping up this support in the months ahead is going to be so important for families here”
10 NOVEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY
11. Various shots, family eating WFP hot meals with bread
Heavy rain and falling temperatures are making life even harder for families living in tents and damaged buildings in Gaza. Flood waters have spoiled or washed away the food and supplies many families were storing. Overflowing sewage increases the risk of disease.
The coming winter threatens to be very tough for families who have lived through two years of war and have little left in the way of resources to face another winter in the open.
Hundreds of thousands of people remain in urgent need of food. Most are displaced from their homes, their food systems have been shattered and access to basic necessities is limited. The rains have made this situation worse.
The WFP-led Logistics Cluster is facilitating the transportation of tents, blankets, wash stations and mattresses on behalf of humanitarian partners who then distribute them to the population ahead of the winter. WFP is also providing sacks to be used as sandbags to protect IDP camps from the floodwater.
WFP continues to distribute food across Gaza in the form of food parcels, fresh bread, nutritious snacks to children in school, hot meals kitchens and special nutrition products to fight off malnutrition. We are also assisting the most vulnerable families through digital payments – particularly helpful for families affected by the flood water.
WFP reached over a million people in the month after ceasefire and this month we're expecting to reach more.
WFP’s immediate focus is on expanding the current level of food assistance while gradually extending cash-based support and strengthening efforts to revive Gaza’s private sector.
We need full access to all crossings and routes into Gaza so we can bring in the volume of aid needed.
The closure of key road arteries in Gaza these past weeks has been a significant constraint on cargo movements from Kerem Shalom, causing congestion as well as increased insecurity around convoys.
Gaza needs the ceasefire to hold. With a full implementation of the ceasefire and full humanitarian access, WFP can operate at the scale needed for a crisis of this magnitude.
In the month after the ceasefire came into effect, WFP brought in over 32,000 mt of food assistance into Gaza, just over two thirds of our monthly target. WFP is now up to 40,000 – better but still not enough.
WFP now has 54 operational distribution points for food parcels and wheat flour. WFP has reached around 530,000 people (106,000 households) with half or three-quarter rations. This is 30 percent of WFP’s monthly target (1.6 million people/320,000 households).
An average of 160,000 bread bundles (2kg) are being produced per day at 18 WFP-supported bakeries (nine of which are in the north). This meets WFP’s daily target. The bread is distributed through 430 distribution points across the Gaza Strip (including 70 shops).
WFP is supporting 36 hot meals kitchens (13 in the south, 12 in the middle, and 11 in the north) producing about 210,000 meals per day. The monthly target is 400,000 daily meals.
In November so far, WFP has reached an estimated 143,000 women and young children with malnutrition prevention assistance (44 percent of our monthly target).
Also in November, WFP’s digital transfers have so far reached nearly 125,000 people, half of WFP’s target (250,000 people).
WFP has provided 172,000 children with nutritious snacks in temporary schools (well over the monthly target of 120,000).
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