World Food Programme is to cut aid to half a million Palestinians in Gaza as winter approaches over funding shortages

"It's a disaster! How will we provide for the little ones?" said Mervat al-Satari, a displaced mother-of-five at a camp in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis. The number of Gazans helped by the WFP will drop from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. Community kitchen hot meals will fall from 250,000 to 150,000 a day. Families near the Yellow Line will eat every other day instead of daily.

WFP Palestine director Shaun Hughes said the cuts are "not because the needs are coming down".

Two-thirds of Gazans face crisis-level hunger and 200,000 people are in danger of famine.

Mother-of-three Sawsan Bahloul said kitchen portions of pasta or lentils were already too small.