
Why Are People Starving in Gaza? The Logistics of Humanitarian Aid
WFP has worked on the frontlines of the world’s most challenging emergencies. So why has delivering food into Gaza been so difficult?

WFP has worked on the frontlines of the world’s most challenging emergencies. So why has delivering food into Gaza been so difficult?

Urgent international attention called on the crisis in Sudan to address the immense suffering and growing dangers to the population.

New WFP report, ‘A Lifeline at Risk’, finds that 13.7 million WFP food aid recipients could be pushed into emergency levels of hunger.

WFP warned today that refugees in Ethiopia are at risk of rising hunger as critical funding shortages force cuts to food rations.

A new World Food Programme hunger analysis reveals alarming levels of child malnutrition and increased hunger in Haiti.

It’s vital that we do all that we can to build peace by ending hunger. But as wars continue and peace eludes the hungry, WFP, our partners and supporters will be there, continuing our work for as long as we’re needed.

World Food Program USA’s Fall Statement of Impact provides a snapshot of global hunger from May to September 2025 and how the World Food Programme (WFP) responded.  Â

WFP warned today that rising violence by armed groups in Haiti’s capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger.

Safe, unfettered humanitarian access to reach the most vulnerable families is the top priority right now, World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain

WFP continues to bring convoys of food aid into Gaza virtually every day but dire operating conditions prevent the delivery of lifesaving supplies at the scale needed to push back escalating starvation.