Desperate hunger drove crowds of people to overrun a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, reportedly leaving two dead and several injured in a chaotic scramble for food.

The deaths come a day after one Palestinian was killed and 48 were injured following gunfire at an aid distribution hub.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday that it has suspended food assistance for 30,000 Syrian refugees who returned from Jordan to Syria, representing 10 per cent of the total beneficiaries receiving support from the agency.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is “shocked and alarmed” that its premises in southwestern Sudan have been hit by repeated shelling from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as the paramilitary group wages a brutal civil war, now in its third year, with the Sudanese army.

U.N. trucks delivering food to Gaza were stopped and looted overnight, Gaza residents and merchants said on Wednesday.

As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to exacerbate, children sat in lines on the side of the road on Tuesday waiting for any food.

Israel blocked the import of all food, medicine and fuel into Gaza for 2 ½ months before allowing a small number of aid trucks to enter in the last few days.

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned that food insecurity had worsened in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring countries as violence escalated in 2024. The conflict, long affecting the DRC,

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