Welthungerhilfe

Bonn – November 10, 2026 -- Weekend rains destroyed 250 tents and badly damaged 500 more at a single Gaza camp, Welthungerhilfe said, as the German aid organization urged the Bundestag to raise humanitarian funding to €2.8 billion.

Half of Gaza's displacement camps sit in high flood-risk zones

About half of the camps, which house nearly one million people, lie in areas with a high risk of flooding, according to Welthungerhilfe Secretary General Mathias Mogge. Some sites are low-lying sandy ground where water collects quickly and ruins tarps, mattresses and food. Others have clay soils that turn into mud flats, destroying belongings and flooding latrines.

Welthungerhilfe operates a bread-baking oven at the Al Ard Al Tayyeba camp in Khan Younis, where 800 families have taken shelter. The 250 destroyed and 500 badly damaged tents were all at that site.

Bonn – November 08, 2026 -- Welthungerhilfe is calling on COP31 delegates in Antalya to commit to a binding plan for more public climate adaptation finance, warning that a very strong El Niño, rising food prices and deep cuts to aid budgets threaten food security for millions of people, particularly in the Global South.

Germany delivered €4.7 billion against a pledge of at least €6 billion

The aid organization says Germany provided only €4.7 billion from budget funds for international climate finance in 2025, short of its pledge of at least €6 billion, a gap of at least €1.3 billion. Dunja Krause, Welthungerhilfe's climate expert, argues that private capital cannot fill the shortfall. She cites OECD data showing that only 8% of mobilized private funds flow exclusively into adaptation measures. Germany is also attending COP31 without its chancellor.