The World Food Programme says it will have to drastically reduce lifesaving food aid in Gaza because of a lack of funding.
Overall the number of Palestinians helped by the United Nations agency will drop by about a third from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million.
The agency says it urgently needs $450m over the next six months to sustain critical operations in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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07:33 The BBC reports from Chicago on the powerful synthetic drugs reshaping the drug crisis in the US
15:51 The French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asks some cities to impose partial curfews after a weekend of riots and looting
19:08 Japan is launching a world first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars
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