"WFP (the UN World Food Programme) is being forced to cut the number of people we help in the West Bank by half," says Shaun Hughes, the UN agency's representative in the Palestinian territories.
This is happening at a time when the need for food in the West Bank is more than twice as great as it was two years ago.
200,000 people will receive food aid, compared with the 400,000 who have received it so far.
Access to food has historically not been a major problem in the West Bank, Hughes points out. He cites escalating violence from Israeli settlers, greater intervention by the Israeli military, demolitions and displacements as reasons for the worsening situation.
