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Cuts force World Food Programme to end support for half a million Palestinians in Gaza
Two-thirds of population face crisis levels of food insecurity and 200,000 people are in danger of famine This winter is likely to deepen hunger for Palestinians in Gaza, after sweeping aid cuts forced the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to end support for more than half a million people each month,
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Both outlets focus on the World Food Programme saying funding shortages are forcing cuts to aid in Gaza. NPR foregrounds the head’s quoted description of conditions and says 1.4 million people face acute food shortages, while BBC News leads with the cutbacks themselves and says the number helped will drop by about a third, from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.
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