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A young girl waits in a food line in Gaza, visibly struggling in the mass of people as she holds an empty pot. Amid catastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition, exacerbated by Israeli restrictions on aid and funding cuts by international organisations, most people in Gaza rely on charity kitchens for their daily meals.  Since the beginning of October, the distribution of daily hot meals and monthly food parcels to families has declined significantly due to funding shortfalls, with the UN World Food Programme’s cuts leaving around 500,000 people without monthly food assistance. About 1.4 million people — two-thirds of Gaza’s population — face crisis-level food insecurity or worse, while the WFP says it urgently needs $450 million over the next six months to sustain critical operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank ahead of a fourth winter as Israel continues its genocide of the Palestinian people