Nearly half of the population is grappling with catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
Months of hostilities and restrictions on humanitarian aid have collapsed the food and health systems, resulting in catastrophic consequences for children and their families
On Saturday, Israeli forces shot dead 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and critically wounded 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar near Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, Jericho. Mohammed Musa died the following day.
Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators called on Israel and Hamas Saturday to "finalise" the truce deal.
The first phase of Israel's offer would last for six weeks and would include a "full and complete" ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from "all populated areas" of Gaza and the "release of a number of hostages including women, the elderly, the wounded in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners."
From May 7 to May 20, not a single WFP truck crossed from the southern corridors from Egypt into Rafah.
The UN agency has been unable to access its main warehouse in the south because it was in an evacuation zone, and the 2,700 tonnes of food inside were either looted or destroyed in the fighting.
