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UN: Partners distributing more than 1 million hot meals daily in Gaza as crossings constrain aid flow
Summary
A UN spokesperson said partners are scaling up food, nutrition and fuel deliveries in Gaza but called for more crossings and facilitation for nongovernmental organizations to increase aid access; the briefing also included updates on South Sudan floods, Ukraine and Haiti.
The United Nations reported that partners are distributing more than 1,000,000 hot meals daily across the Gaza Strip while efforts to scale water, sanitation and nutrition services increase — but officials said more crossings and facilitation are needed to meet rising needs.
A UN spokesperson told reporters on Oct. 24 that “partners working on food security say that they are now distributing over 1,000,000 hot meals daily across the strip.” The spokesperson said UN partners have reopened six UN‑supported bakeries, opened more than 20 new nutrition sites since the ceasefire that took effect Oct. 10 and now operate roughly 150 functional nutrition sites across Gaza.
The spokesperson said 20 mobile health and nutrition teams are being deployed across Gaza — “doubling the number of teams compared to pre‑ceasefire levels.” This week partners dispatched therapeutic food to treat more than 1,200 children with acute malnutrition and more than 32,000 jars of baby food intended to support about 760 infants and young children for two weeks.
On logistics, the spokesperson said partners collected 127…
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