2025 was one of the toughest years on record for humanitarians.
Operations underfunded. Teams overstretched. Aid workers under attack.
It has never been harder to deliver aid — and never more necessary.
RAMA DUWAJI, New York City’s FIRST LADY, for our SPECIAL ISSUE #CUTCOVER 🌟
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In #Gaza, UNRWA’s 12,000-strong team continues to work relentlessly.
Throughout 2025, UNRWA teams have been providing critical services including healthcare, psychosocial support, education, and supplying water.
UNRWA has the workforce, the expertise and the trust of the community.
Restrictions on aid and operations must be lifted. UNRWA teams must be allowed to work at an even greater scale and contribute to stability.
#UNRWAworks
Israel apparently has enough planes for genocide, but not to fight wildfires.
So Europe will save trees, while Israeli bombs will continue to burn the children of Palestine.
Don’t worry about me — the thing I’m best at is laughing.
And don’t be scared, I’m strong and can handle myself. What matters is that you stay alive and leave Gaza for the world.
This is what my friend Fatima told me before she was martyred this morning in an airstrike
It's been 34 days since a New Yorker was abducted from his apartment lobby and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana.
The Trump administration now admits this kidnapping was *solely* on the basis of protected First Amendment speech.
Free Mahmoud now.
STATEMENT: WFP is deeply concerned by recent notifications from the US administration indicating that funding for emergency food assistance in 14 countries has been terminated.
🔵If implemented, this could amount to a death sentence for millions of people facing extreme hunger and starvation. We are in contact with the US administration to seek clarification and to urge for continued support for these life-saving programmes.
🔵WFP is grateful for the contributions it receives from the US and all its donors. Our staff continue to work tirelessly to reach vulnerable communities with vital food assistance in hunger hot spots around the world.
Lifesaving humanitarian work depends on the safe, unhindered, movement of humanitarian supplies and people.
Humanitarians are #NotATarget. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
New Interview: I talked to Arif Husain, the chief economist of the World Food Programme, about the food crisis in Gaza, why it may get worse, and what it means for Gaza’s children. https://t.co/9yfzHWc6a7
The need for a longer-term ceasefire in #Gaza has never been greater.
Hunger is spreading widely and people are growing increasingly desperate in their search food.
We need more access. We need more supplies. We need lasting peace.
#Gaza
All parties must mitigate the effects of the conflict on civilians, including the protection of essential infrastructure such as hospitals and food distribution sites.
We appeal for civilians to be able to access humanitarian delivery points and services, access is needed at borders.
🚨 #Gaza is running out of food.
@WFP has 951 metric tons of emergency food ready at #AlArish near the #Egypt-Gaza border.
We urgently need SAFE access to deliver this food to families who need it most.
🎥WFP Spokeswoman @AbeerEtefa explains at the @UN biweekly press briefing.
#Syria: How is WFP reaching earthquake-affected families?
🔴Pre-positioned food for 30,000 people is being distributed by our partners
🔴Hot meals are being served in shelters, including in Aleppo
Help WFP continue to scale up urgent food assistance: https://t.co/gTdwntgEKo
Over 1.4 million people in northwest #Syria and thousands of refugees in southeast #Türkiye, the regions which have seen the worst effects of the earthquakes, depend on WFP assistance.
WFP is on the ground and continues to monitor the situation closely.
https://t.co/Tx9IVAoa4B
WFP was created in 1961 as an experiment to provide food aid through the UN system.
Today, as the world's largest humanitarian agency feeding millions of people around the world, we are proud to be part of the @UN family & work towards a #ZeroHunger future for all.
#UNDay 🇺🇳🍛