WCK sustains one of the largest food-relief operations in Gaza
Conflict
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.
In brief
- What happenedWorld Central Kitchen reported continuing to cook and deliver hundreds of thousands of hot meals each day in Gaza despite access, supply and funding pressure.
- How many affectedMeals served since 2023: More than 360 million · Current output: Hundreds of thousands of hot meals daily · Primary constraint: Humanitarian access, food supply and funding
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
Updated verified snapshot
This record was first dated 2026-05-20 and last verified 2026-08-28.
Situation
World Central Kitchen reported continuing to cook and deliver hundreds of thousands of hot meals each day in Gaza despite access, supply and funding pressure. By May 2026, WCK said its teams had served more than 360 million meals to families since the conflict began in 2023.
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the event, place and reporting date. 3 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Meals served since 2023
- More than 360 million retained at 2026-08-28
- Current output
- Hundreds of thousands of hot meals daily retained at 2026-08-28
- Primary constraint
- Humanitarian access, food supply and funding retained at 2026-08-28
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
This page renders the last verified WorldsAid cache directly in HTML. It does not treat generated summaries as primary evidence.
Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz
Verified
SHA-256 0fb08579ab6ca12b869d786ec39c296cb763cbb921adcf6d63c56076206eb8ad