Highlights
WFP is providing emergency assistance to 29,150 people displaced by the conflict in Gaza.
This is in addition to the 285,000 people WFP reaches regularly with food assistance in Gaza. The emergency relief includes:Emergency ready-to-eat food for approximately 23,000 displaced people that have taken refuge in UNRWA shelters.
Emergency electronic food vouchers to 685 displaced families – approximately 4,110 people- who are living with host families.
Patients and staff in hospitals continue to be assisted with emergency food rations.
As a next step, WFP is working with UNICEF to include water and sanitation items in the vouchers. In addition, WFP is working to supplement the emergency food rations of bread and canned tuna in shelters with additional items and the use of vouchers, and in hospitals with food which can be cooked in hospital kitchens.
Situation Update
GAZA
WFP has pre-programmed an additional 1,400 emergency food vouchers as a contingency.
The total commercial stock of wheat in Gaza is sufficient to cover the needs of the entire Gazan population for approximately 16 days.
WFP contracted bakeries are on standby to produce additional bread when requested. WFP also has an emergency stock of tuna of 133 mt which would feed more than 55,600 people for 16 days.
Stocks of WFP commodities at cooperating partners’ warehouses and bakeries is around 2,354 mt which could be utilized to meet emergency needs. These stocks can meet the needs of WFP’s 177,000 in-kind beneficiaries for around eighteen days.
In case of an emergency, WFP has access to 4,750 mt of excess wheat flour stored at local mills in Gaza.
Together with wheat grain, which is currently being milled, the excess flour will cover the needs of WFP’s 177,000 beneficiaries in Gaza for approximately two months.