The program stressed, in a post on X on yesterday evening, that "any hope for the recovery of the Gaza Strip requires a comprehensive humanitarian response with the cooperation of all UN agencies."
The Agency said the convoy of three vehicles carrying eight staff members from central Gaza to Gaza City in the north was struck by 16 bullets near the Wadi Gaza checkpoint on Sunday, causing no injuries but immobilising the convoy.
The World Food Program has halted its malnutrition prevention activities in Yemen over what it calls lack of funds and continuous disruption in supplies.
"In light of the severe funding shortages, WFP is forced to make painful choices to stretch the limited resources," Samer Abdeljaber, the WFP's country director, he told Reuters by phone from Jerusalem.
Volker Perthes, the head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission (UNITAMS) said on Sunday that the three WFP employees were killed in clashes in Kabkabiya in North Darfur a day earlier.