U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said famine in Gaza is “a present-day catastrophe" and the start of expanded Israeli military operations present “a new and dangerous phase.”
The WFP has been supporting 37 kitchens that produced some 500,000 meals a day. It was not immediately clear how many kitchens would still be operating in Gaza if those shut down.
The UN agency warned they were among 3.6 million people in Ethiopia who would no longer have access to food aid in the coming weeks without urgent new funding.
Afghanistan has been hard hit by climate change, with a recent assessment by climate experts ranking it the sixth most climate vulnerable country in the world.
