oPt: Funding shortfall forces the World Food Programme to cut food assistance by half in the West Bank

Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: World Food Programme Today an estimated 900,000 people are food insecure in the West Bank – with increased settler violence and displacement disrupting livelihoods, deepening hunger and pushing families further into crisis. WFP’s assistance to-date has been reaching 400,000 of the most vulnerable people, but this will be scaled back to 200,000 starting this month. WFP’s latest quarterly food security analysis found that 76 percent of households in