'Scale of needs is enormous and progress must be maintained. The ceasefire must hold. We cannot go back,' says WFP official

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.

‘Hunger remains rampant and the threat of famine persists,' says UN agency

The program added in a post on X, "11 months of war in Gaza, and 2.2 million people are still in dire need of food and livelihood assistance."

July 20 airstrikes on Houthi-controlled port cause major casualties and $20 million in losses, says WFP report

2.2M people at risk of famine as food deliveries face many obstacles

'The world cannot stand by and watch people starve,' says UN agency

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.