File Photo: Palestinians receive food at a displacement camp in Khan Younis, Gaza, on September 3. AFP
It says the main crossings into the north have been closed by Israel and no food aid has entered since 1 October, putting 1 million people at risk of going hungry.
"We are committed to delivering life-saving food every day despite the mounting challenges,” said Antoine Renard, WFP Country Director for Palestine, according to BBC.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was unclear how long the limited food supplies it distributed in northern Gaza earlier will last.
Over the past 12 months, 90% of children in Gaza have suffered from “food poverty,” according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
“Human suffering should never be normalized,” the group posted to X on Saturday. “We must work towards ending this ongoing crisis.”
On Wednesday, the WFP said in a report that the aid entering the strip has plummeted to its lowest level in months, forcing the organization to stop the distribution of food parcels in October.
In northern Gaza, residents told the Associated Press (AP) that many were trapped in their homes and shelters with dwindling supplies while seeing bodies uncollected in the streets as the bombing hampered emergency responders.
Those who rushed to the scene of the latest deadly airstrikes in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya found a hole 20 meters (65 feet) deep where a home once stood, reports the AP.
At least 20 bodies were recovered as of Saturday, while others likely were trapped under the rubble, emergency service officials said. Elsewhere in Jabaliya, a strike on a home killed two brothers and injured a woman and newborn baby, the officials said.
Israel’s military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strikes, reports the AP.
On Saturday, a message was posted on social media by the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee warning people living in the ‘D5’ area of northern Gaza to move south, said BBC.
D5 is a square on the grid superimposed over maps of Gaza by the Israeli army. It is a block that is split into several dozen smaller areas.
The Israeli war has destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced about 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, often multiple times.
The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) says many Palestinians are choosing to ignore evacuation orders and stay put.
Sam Rose, senior deputy director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, tells the BBC this is partly because “after a year of this, people are just done".
"They are using whatever agency they have left to just say they are staying put."
He says the intensity of the conflict means some people try to leave but can't, and that only 100 people or so have crossed the checkpoint to the south.
“People have often minutes just to decide what to do" when evacuation orders are issued, he says.
“The fear, the humiliation, the degradation these people are going through, we can only begin to imagine what’s happening and what they’re feeling and how long it will take them to recover from this if indeed they make it out alive," Rose adds.
He says key access points to northern Gaza have been closed since the end of September.
The war killed at least 42,175 people, mostly women and children, and wounded 98,336.
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