The UN World Food Program (WFP) on Friday warned that food insecurity in Gaza will worsen unless additional funding is secured to sustain humanitarian assistance, describing recent improvements as “fragile” despite signs that emergency aid has helped ease hunger, Anadolu reports.
“The situation will deteriorate,” Ross Smith, WFP’s director of emergency preparedness and response, said in response to Anadolu’s question during a UN briefing in Geneva.
Smith said the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report showed the number of people facing acute food insecurity had fallen to 1.4 million from 1.6 million, reflecting about a 10% improvement.
“But it’s critical that these findings are understood correctly. It’s not a story of recovery; it’s a story that humanitarian assistance is working,” he said. ” It does not mean that our job is done, and it does not mean that people in Gaza are no longer at risk”
He stressed that more than 200,000 people remain in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency), particularly in areas near what he described as the “yellow line” and “orange line.”
