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STORY: UN / GAZA FOOD SECURITY REPORT
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 DECEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
18 DECEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, World Food Program (WFP) Representative in Palestine:
“Two months into the ceasefire, it's quite important that from the World Food Programme, I can confirm to you that food access has actually significantly improved. If you remember what was the situation during the summer, as we speak, all our distribution networks as the World Food Programme actually up and running. We managed to reach more than 1 million people with direct food boxes and wheat flour. We managed to actually have along with UNICEF and NGOs all the different nutrition, activities that are up and running. And we are actually having more than300,000 people that are being served with preventive nutrition.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, World Food Program (WFP) Representative in Palestine:
“With commercial and the flow of aid in terms of food assistance that are increased, indeed, IPC will be released soon, but I can confirm to you that people are having on an average two meals per day, which is very different if I look, it was only one meal per day in July.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, World Food Program (WFP) Representative in Palestine:
“It is worth to highlight a sign that the situation has improved in terms of access to food, but the living conditions in Gaza remain very dire.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, World Food Program (WFP) Representative in Palestine:
“Many of the families are living in wadis. For those that are not used to that word, this is an area where actually the flow of the water is actually running, and that is the biggest fear that we have currently in Gaza is the fact that the winter is only starting. What will be the conditions for all those that are not able to move their tents in areas that clearly will be soaked with water.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, World Food Program (WFP) Representative in Palestine:
“From the World Food Programme, out of 19 cooperating partners, many indeed are some of these INGO, you it will have an impact especially related to nutrition, because many of the health centres are relying on INGO to provide therapeutic support to many of the children below five, as well as pregnant and breastfeeding women. There are clearly sign that if INGOs use are not able to operate, we will actually face challenges in a such crucial period where we are into the first phase of the ceasefire.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, World Food Program (WFP) Representative in Palestine:
“So the challenge that we have is not so much the fact that there is food on the market. It's also the fact that there's the affordability. And the last one on the access. The deeper you go into Gaza and the closer you get to many of the areas that are close to the yellow line, the less chances you have services and markets that are up and running.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
FILE – WFP - 26 OCTOBER 2025, GAZA CITY
15. Various shots, distribution of WFP Family Food Parcels
FILE – WFP - 20 OCTOBER 2025, GAZA CITY
16. Various shots, displaced People Living in a Girl’s School
17. Various shots, WFP bread distribution to displaced people living in Girl’s School
FILE - WFP - 30 OCTOBER, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, PALESTINE
18. Various shots, WFP hot meals distribution
World Food Program (WFP) Representative in Palestine, Antoine Renard highlighted that the situation has improved in terms of access to food in Gaza, but living conditions “remain very dire” in the Strip.
Renard spoke to reporters today (18 Dec) via video link from Gaza City.
He said, “Two months into the ceasefire, it's quite important that from the World Food Programme, I can confirm to you that food access has actually significantly improved.”
He said that all WFP distribution networks are up and running, adding that the Programme managed to reach more than one million people with direct food boxes and wheat flour.
Along with UNICEF and NGOs, he said, “all the different nutritional activities are up and running,” adding that “more than 300,000 people that are being served with preventive nutrition.”
Renard also said, “With commercial and the flow of aid in terms of food assistance that are increased, indeed, IPC will be released soon, but I can confirm to you that people are having on an average two meals per day, which is very different if I look, it was only one meal per day in July.”
Asked about the living conditions, the WFP Representative said that many of the families are living in wadis - an area where the flow of rain water is running due to storms.
He said, “the biggest fear that we have currently in Gaza is the fact that the winter is only starting. What will be the conditions for all those that are not able to move their tents in areas that clearly will be soaked with water.”
Asked about the new aid group registration process, Renard said, “From the World Food Programme, out of 19 cooperating partners, many indeed are some of these INGO, it will have an impact especially related to nutrition, because many of the health centres are relying on INGO to provide therapeutic support to many of the children below five, as well as pregnant and breastfeeding women.”
“There are clearly sign that if INGOs use are not able to operate, we will actually face challenges in a such crucial period where we are into the first phase of the ceasefire,” he added.
Asked about access to food, the WFP Representative said affordability is an issue. He took the price of eggs for example, saying that though the price decreased from 30 USD to 12 USD for two kilograms of eggs, but in reality many people cannot afford it
He said, “So the challenge that we have is not so much the fact that there is food on the market. It's also the fact that there's the affordability.”
Renard also pointed out that “the deeper you go into Gaza and the closer you get to many of the areas that are close to the yellow line, the less chances you have services and markets that are up and running.”
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