The World Food Programme announced today that it has officially run out of food supplies in Gaza — a devastating development in what’s already one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
The situation, already dire, has now entered a new phase: complete breakdown.
In a short, blunt statement, the WFP said it was suspending food distribution in northern Gaza because there’s simply nothing left to give. Supplies in the south are rapidly dwindling too, with warehouses empty and trucks stalled at borders. The organization said they haven’t been able to deliver anything meaningful into the area for days.
“We are out of food,” one WFP official said plainly. “People are starving.”
And there’s no exaggeration there. According to aid groups on the ground, families are surviving on little more than tea and scraps of bread — when they’re lucky. Some are going entire days without eating. Children are fainting in makeshift shelters. Water is scarce, and electricity is practically non-existent.
This isn’t just a crisis. It’s a collapse.
The WFP and other aid groups have been sounding the alarm for weeks, calling for safe and sustained humanitarian access. But with the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, repeated airstrikes, and border closures, the convoys simply haven’t made it in. Even when trucks do get clearance, the chaos on the ground makes distribution nearly impossible.
“People are so desperate that the moment food arrives, it turns into a scramble,” a local aid worker told reporters. “There’s no system anymore. Just survival.”
The United Nations has called the situation “catastrophic,” and the numbers are staggering: over two million people are trapped in Gaza, more than half of them children. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Shelters are beyond capacity. And now, with food stocks gone, the risks of disease, malnutrition, and unrest grow by the hour.
There’s growing pressure on the international community to act, but so far, diplomatic efforts have moved slowly — too slowly for the people now facing starvation.
As one Gaza resident put it in a video shared online: “We don’t want statements. We need food. We need help. We need it now.”
There are no signs of relief on the horizon. Just a growing sense that the world is watching a humanitarian disaster unfold in real time — and failing to stop it.