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STORY: WFP / GAZA WINTER FOOD PARCELS
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SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 20 OCTOBER TO 2 NOVEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY, JERUSALEM
21 OCTOBER AND 02 NOVEMBER 2025, GAZA CITY
1.Various shots, destruction Gaza City
Residents returning to Gaza City have described the destruction as resembling the aftermath of a powerful earthquake. Entire neighborhoods and major streets have been reduced to rubble, leaving families displaced with nowhere safe to go. Despite the ongoing danger, many residents are returning to their homes and setting up makeshift tents atop the ruins, driven by desperation and the lack of alternatives.
21 OCTOBER 2025, GAZA CITY
2. Various shots, Rula and her family
Rula and her family have been displaced six times from the north to the south. Her husband could not return this time because he's injured and they don't have the money to move their belongings back to the North, They are living, in a tent over the rubble of their house. The roof is tilted so they risk sliding off. They don't have any source of income and lost all the money that she and her husband saved for years before the war.
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rula:
“This is the house — I’ll show you. And this roof, you can see how tilted it is. When it rains or anything happens, this area becomes dangerous. Even the little ones here slip and fall a lot. It’s really hard for us.”
26 OCTOBER 2025, GAZA CITY
4. Various shots, distribution of WFP Family Food Parcels
Three weeks into the ceasefire, WFP has reached one million people across the Gaza Strip with family food parcels, delivered to families through 44 food distribution points. The family food parcels contain essential cooking items like oil, salt, lentils, sugar, pasta, tomatoes paste, canned beans. In the first three months of the ceasefire, as part of its general food distributions, WFP aims to feed up to 1.6 million people (roughly 320,000 families) with bread, wheat flour and family food parcels. Crucially, WFP is again providing vital food assistance to families in Gaza City and the north where people suffered the most severe hunger during the later stages of the war.
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Huda:
“I’m speaking for myself and many other families. No matter how cheap food becomes, people still can’t afford it. During the war, we spent everything we had just to survive when prices were high, and goods were scarce.”
28 OCTOBER 2025, KHAN YOUNIS
6.Various shots, family food parcel ingredients
The family food parcels contain essential cooking items like oil, salt, lentils, sugar, pasta, tomatoes paste, canned beans.
31 OCTOBER 2025, JERUSALEM
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, WFP Palestine Country Director:
“What worries people in Gaza the most is what's going happen in the next few weeks and months. Will the ceasefire last? Will they still be able to get food to feed their families? The World Food Program can make sure that they do get the food they need and we've reached already 1 million people with food parcels. But that is not enough We need to get more crossings open and better access inside Gaza the World Food Program needs to be able to use all the key roads to bring food in.”
20 OCTOBER 2025, GAZA CITY
8. Various shots, displaced People Living in a Girl’s School
After two years of devastating conflict, hundreds of thousands of families remain in urgent need of food. Most are displaced, their food systems have been shattered, and access to basic necessities is severely limited.
9. Various shots, WFP bread distribution to displaced people living in Girl’s School
WFP is also ensuring bakeries can produce fresh bread daily, providing supplements to combat malnutrition, getting nutritious snacks to children in school and enabling the most vulnerable families to buy food on markets through digital payments. An estimated 700,000 people receive fresh bread daily, supplied through 15 bakeries — nine in South and Central Gaza and six in Gaza City. Our target is 25 bakeries.
10. Various shots, Manar Abu Baid who is living in the Girl’s School
Manar is a mother of four living in a Girl’s School. She and her family have been displaced several times and spent what little money they had on food. Today she is cooking a rare meal of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions that she was able to buy thanks to the bread she and her family receives.
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manar Abu Baid:
“The reality hit me even harder after the ceasefire because I became homeless. We lost our home, our belongings, our clothes, our food - everything inside the house. We’re now below zero. Winter is approaching. I look at my children and remember how they used to have warm pajamas and blankets. Now, they have nothing. None of our basic needs are met.”
30 OCTOBER 2025, KHAN YOUNIS
12. Various shots. WFP Hot Meals Distribution
After months of suspension, WFP reopened seven hot meal kitchens last week—six in the south and one in the north—serving over 75,000 meals, with plans to scale up to 400,000 daily meals.
Three weeks into the ceasefire, the UN World Food Programme has distributed food parcels to one million people in the Gaza Strip as part of a broad operation to push back hunger in the war-torn territory. But to continue expanding operations to the level required, humanitarian teams need more border crossings to be opened and more access to key roads inside Gaza.
Here are the latest updates on WFP operations and food security in Gaza:
WFP Operations
• Since the ceasefire, WFP has reached one million people across the Gaza Strip with family food parcels, against a target of 1.6 million. With supplies limited, each family received a reduced ration of one parcel with enough food for 10 days.
• It was the first round of regular food parcel distributions since April. WFP currently has 44 food distribution points active across Gaza, against a target of 145.
• An estimated 700,000 people receive fresh bread daily, supplied through 17 WFP-supported bakeries — nine in South and Central Gaza and eight in the north. WFP’s goal is to get 25 bakeries up and running.
• Nearly 200,000 people received emergency digital cash payments in October, enabling them to purchase food and essential goods from local markets. This was 100 percent of the monthly target.
• More than 150,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, as well as children under five, received vital nutrition supplements in October. This is almost half WFP’s target.
• Nutritious snacks such as date bars and High Energy Biscuits have reached 70,000 school-age children at 84 temporary learning sites run by partners. The monthly target is 120,000.
• WFP continues to lead on logistics support for the broader humanitarian system, as well as helping to provide emergency telecoms and coordination for the food security sector for maximum reach with partners.
Operational Challenges
• At present, only two crossings into Gaza are operational. This severely limits the quantity of aid that WFP and other agencies can bring in to stabilize the markets and address people’s needs.
• Getting food into the north remains difficult. A major obstacle is the continued closure of northern crossings into the Gaza Strip. Aid convoys are obliged to follow a slow, difficult route from the south.
• Across the rest of Gaza, the quantity of food arriving is still insufficient. In the three and a half weeks since the ceasefire began, WFP has brought nearly 20,000 MT of food assistance into Gaza, roughly half its monthly target.
• To deliver at scale, WFP requires all crossings to be open, especially those in the north. Full access to key roads across Gaza is also critical to allow food to be transported quickly and efficiently to where it is needed.
• Damage to infrastructure during the conflict has severely impacted warehousing and storage capacity, with more than 50 percent destroyed.
Food Security in Gaza
• After two years of war, a 2-month blockade and months of insufficient food supply, families in Gaza are still struggling to put food on the table.
• During October, hundreds of thousands of people reportedly returned to northern Gaza, many of them to homes that are in ruins. Their access to food is severely limited. Most displaced households remain in the south, often living in tents and without adequate access to food and services.
• By mid-October 2025, food consumption in Gaza showed a slight improvement due to humanitarian and commercial trucks. However, it remains below pre-conflict levels. Households primarily consumed cereals and pulses. Meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits were being consumed very rarely.
• With the ceasefire announcement, the prices of most food items decreased compared to September and the first week of October. More price decreases were expected but prices remained higher than February 2025 (ceasefire) and pre-conflict level.
• Anticipation of food inflows upon the ceasefire drove food prices down. However, liquidity constraints persist, with cash withdrawal fees still between 20-24 percent.
