WFP warns that 400,000 people who rely on uncultured meals will be affected.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said its food stocks in Gaza have been completely exhausted as Israel’s aid lockdown continues into the eighth week.

In a statement on Friday WFP confirms It has delivered Gaza’s “last remaining grain stock to the local kitchen and is expected to run out of food in the next few days”.

Antoine Renard, the group’s Palestinian representative, told Al Jazeera that more than 400,000 people in Gaza rely on WFP assistance and that if this lifeline fails, there is little recourse.

“We (local NGOs) all ran very short,” he said. “We are running out.”

Since March 2, Israel has completely blocked all aid supplies, including food, medicine and fuel entering Gaza, Ignore the 2024 World Court Order Promote the entry of humanitarian aid.

Food was heavily depleted in the nearly two-month ceasefire earlier this year, while prices of almost no food on the open market soared 1,400 per cent, according to WFP.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City that hunger and malnutrition are widespread.

“People are hungry. They are already rationing items,” he said. “Not only the organization, but the families that have no supply.”

He added that it is “hard to imagine” how thousands of families rely on WFP’s daily meals to “go through”.

The Gaza government media office warned that reduced food supply could put “thousands of Palestinian families” into hunger.

52 people, including 50 children, reportedly died from hunger and malnutrition, while more than one million children are hungry every day.

“Unbearable”

Despite the humanitarian crisis, Israel showed no signs of reversing the lockdown. Last week, Defense Minister Katz said Israel would continue to block aid, describing it as a strategy of “pressure” Hamas.

Israeli troops have repeatedly accused Hamas of exploitation and aid — a claim the group has denied — and believe that all supplies must be kept out to prevent combatants from receiving assistance.

But even Israel’s closest allies have publicly condemned the strategy. On Wednesday, Germany, France and the UK collectively called the action “unbearable” and warned that it was increasing the risk of “hunger, epidemics and death.”

Israeli attacks kill dozens of them

As the food crisis deepens, Israeli attacks continue Through the enclave of war. Gaza government media office said on Friday that at least 78 people have been killed in the past 24 hours. According to local media, there were 15 air strike victims in the house of Khan Younis, and a woman killed in a limb attack near the Jabbaria refugee camp.

Meanwhile, sources reported by Reuters said that according to Reuters, a stagnant ceasefire talk is expected to resume on Friday in Cairo.

So far, efforts to truce have reached a deadlock, Hamas insisted on a permanent ceasefire, Israel only provided temporary assistance and demanded Hamas to be disarmed, which the group refused.

The mediator is Now research new suggestions Reuters reported that this would include a five to seven-year truce and the end of the battle after Gaza’s release of all prisoners.

Since the ceasefire went out on March 18, Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,900 Palestinians, many of them civilians, and according to Gaza’s health authorities, thousands have been displaced as Israel seizes the so-called buffer zone.

At least 51,439 people have been killed in Israel’s war against Gaza since the beginning of October 2023 and 117,416 have been injured, according to Palestinian authorities.