'Life is absolutely brutal in Gaza,' says World Food Programme head

The UN's World Food Programme says 1.4 million people in Gaza are suffering acute food shortages and that funding gaps are forcing cutbacks in critical aid, despite the U.S. brokered Hamas-Israel ceasefire. Transcript JOEL ROSE, HOST: It's been more than a year since famine was declared in parts of Gaza, and while some progress has been made to address food shortages there, humanitarian organizations are warning that progress is extremely fragile. Despite the Israel-Hamas ceasefire brokered by the U.S., more than two-thirds of Gaza's population - nearly 1.4 million people - are experiencing crisis levels of acute food insecurity. The U.N.'s World Food Programme says the approaching winter months will only increase the need for more humanitarian aid and more money to pay for it. Carl Skau is the acting executive director of the World Food Programme. He joins us now from Jerusalem. Welcome to the program.CARL SKAU: Thank you. Thank you for having me on.ROSE: You have just returned from a trip to Gaza. What did you see there?SKAU: Well, this is my eighth trip to Gaza since the war, and it's a year into the ceasefire. You know, my takeaway is that not much have changed, frankly. There ...