Gaza Humanitarian Response Update | 8-21 June 2025

The distribution of nutrition items for children in Gaza. Photo by UNICEF/Nateel

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The distribution of nutrition items for children in Gaza. Photo by UNICEF/Nateel

Period: 8-21 June 2025

The information below is provided every other week by Clusters and select Technical Working Groups operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). For an overview of priority needs and activities by cluster, please see the Flash Appeal.

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Food Security Sector (FSS)

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Response

As of 22 June, 209,000 meals were prepared and delivered by 12 partners through 45 kitchens, which represents an 80 per cent reduction from the 1.07 million meals distributed daily by 180 kitchens at the end of April. On 21 June, one partner was able to resume operations at one of their main kitchens in Deir al Balah after receiving some truckloads of food commodities a day earlier. The kitchen had been closed since 12 May. Initial cooking started with limited quantities, prioritizing healthcare workers in hospitals and medical points, as well as nearby communities adjacent to the facility. The gradual scale-up of meal production will depend on the continued availability of both food supplies and fuel.
FSS partners are working with the Protection Cluster and other relevant stakeholders to engage with community members on how aid is distributed and communicate about humanitarian aid deliveries.
Since the partial resumption of aid entry on 19 May, following a 78-day blockade, partners have managed to bring in more than 9,500* metric tonnes (MT) of wheat flour, or about 360,000 25-kilogramme (kg) bags. Most of this has been offloaded by people in desperate need of humanitarian assistance en route, and in some cases by armed criminals, before reaching their final destinations.

Challenges

The current volume and pace of deliveries remain critically insufficient to meet the needs of Gaza's entire population, which is facing high levels of acute food insecurity. Consistent, frequent, large-scale deliveries through crossings are urgently needed to meet needs and stabilize availability, pricing, and affordability of wheat flour and other basic staples as well as reduce tensions and rebuild trust within communities. All UN-supported bakeries remain closed.
Israeli authorities continue to prohibit humanitarian organizations from carrying out food parcel distributions within the Gaza Strip, further hampering efforts to meet needs and ensure the safe and equitable delivery of food assistance.
Attacks on people attempting to collect food supplies along established humanitarian aid convoy routes or from militarized distribution sites continue to be reported, resulting in mass casualties.
Fuel is urgently required to support partners’ cargo collection from Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings and to enable the expansion of kitchen operations.
Between 21 April and 21 June 2025, within two months, the scale of operations gradually decreased due to a combination of access restrictions, insecurity, and resource constraints. By mid-May, the number of kitchens had decreased by around 60 per cent, to about 70 kitchens, with daily meal distributions falling by over 70 per cent to approximately 300,000 meals per day. This level of activity was maintained for about two weeks before it further declined. By mid to late June, the number of operational kitchens had decreased by roughly 76 per cent, with only 42–45 kitchens operating, and daily meal distributions were reduced by nearly 83 per cent, to approximately 185,000 meals per day.

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Nutrition

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Response

As of 15 June, a total of 18,741 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the year, representing 31 per cent of the 60,000 estimated by the cluster to be in need of treatment for acute malnutrition in 2025. During the first two weeks of June, 1,648 new admissions of children with moderate or severe acute malnutrition were reported by 12 partners (although ongoing internet connectivity challenges have affected reporting by partners). Of these, 17 children suffer from complications and have been admitted to stabilization centers at hospitals.
Currently, only four stabilization centres are operational in the Gaza strip: two in Khan Younis, one in Deir al Balah, and one serving both Northern Gaza and Gaza governorates. The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently working to establish an additional stabilization centre at the Rantisi Specialized Pediatric Hospital in Gaza city; placing a stabilization centre within a pediatric hospital enables closer follow up of the nutritional status of hospitalized children and the identification and treatment of secondary malnutrition.
During the first two weeks of June, Nutrition Cluster partners distributed small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS-SQ) to about 90,000 children under five, including 72,000 reached through UNRWA activities in shelters and health centres. These figures do not include the number of children reached by WFP partners as connectivity issues prevented timely reporting; WFP partners have been distributing monthly, instead of 15-day, rations of LNS-SQ to protect both staff and families by minimizing movements amid deteriorating security conditions and recurrent displacement orders.
During the first two weeks of June, nearly 15,000 children between six and 23 months received ready-to-use complementary food (baby jar food), including 4,330 in Gaza city and nearly 2,000 in North Gaza.
During the first two weeks of June, more than 9,500 pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW) were screened, and at least 200 were enrolled in the targeted supplementary feeding programme. In addition, nearly 3,000 women received LNS-SQ or high-energy biscuits, although comprehensive data remains unavailable due to connectivity challenges.
Nutrition Cluster partners continue to provide one-on-one support to address the specific needs of caregivers. Between 1 and 15 June, 766 women received individual lactation support, and 472 caregivers received individual guidance on infant and young child feeding practices. Since the start of the year, these efforts have enabled 326 women to start lactation.

Challenges

Connectivity issues have slowed down both activities and reporting of partners. For example, it has hindered follow-up on individual cases, such as children who missed scheduled appointments for continued treatment.
Although limited supplies are entering, ongoing restrictions on the entry of aid continue to severely limit the availability of supplies required to implement nutrition programmes at the necessary scale, especially for PBW, where coverage remains low. Only 17,000 PBW were reached in May out of the Nutrition Cluster's monthly target of 149,000.