WFP Palestine Emergency Response – External Situation Report #57

18 June 2025

Highlights:

• The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains critical, with conditions falling far below the minimum required to deliver sustained and orderly assistance to a population on the brink of famine.
• Since limited humanitarian access resumed on 19 May, WFP has delivered only 10,691metric tons of food into Gaza, not nearly enough to prevent famine.
• People in Gaza continue to risk their lives for a bag of wheat flour. The majority of WFP cargo is intercepted by desperate civilians before reaching distribution points. Only a massive scale-up in food deliveries can stabilise conditions on the ground and make it possible for standard food distribution mechanisms to resume.

Situation Update:

• On 18 June, WFP issued a statement declaring that any violence causing the death or injury of starving people while trying to access life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable, and called for another ceasefire.
• Aid access remains critically limited in Gaza, with less than 30 percent of food needs addressed in the past two weeks. Looting and crowding disrupted all WFP convoys, with all trucks offloaded prior to final destination.
• Intermittent telecommunications persist in central and southern Gaza; Emergency Telecommunication Cluster (ETC) repair missions are delayed.
• WFP latest Market Monitor highlights that although markets have partially reopened, food remains largely unaffordable or unavailable. Wheat flour now costs between 23 and 27 USD per kilogram, an increase of 4,900 percent since October 2023. Diesel has risen to 60 NIS per litre, and cooking gas is only available on the black market. Remittance and credit transfer fees average 40 percent, further compounding household hardship. Less than one-third of the required food aid has reached people in the past two weeks.
• In the West Bank, severe movement restrictions continue, and only one checkpoint remains open. Local Israeli violence, demolitions, and raids are ongoing, worsening food insecurity.