A young girl waits in line for food in Gaza, clearly struggling with the crowds as she holds an empty pot. Against a backdrop of catastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition, exacerbated by Israeli restrictions on aid and cuts in funding by international organizations, most people in Gaza rely on charity kitchens for their daily meals.

A young girl waits in line for food in Gaza, clearly struggling with the crowds as she holds an empty pot. Against a backdrop of catastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition, exacerbated by Israeli restrictions on aid and cuts in funding by international organizations, most people in Gaza rely on charity kitchens for their daily meals.

Since early October, the distribution of daily hot meals and monthly food packages to families has dropped significantly due to a lack of funding, with cuts to the UN World Food Program leaving around 500,000 people without monthly food assistance. Some 1.4 million people - two-thirds of Gaza's population - face crisis-level food insecurity or worse, while the WFP says it's a flash: $450 million is needed over the next six months to sustain critical operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank ahead of winter four, as Israel continues its genocide in Palestine. Austin people.