UN food program cuts aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to cut its monthly food aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where some two-thirds of the population are struggling to get food, the agency said on Monday.

The WFP said it was reducing the number of people receiving aid from 1.6 million to 1.1 million, leaving some 500,000 people without support.

The UN program is facing severe funding shortages. "WFP no longer has sufficient funding to sustain this level of support," the organization said.