Tom Fletcher says he has allocated an additional $11m from the UN’s emergency response fund to help “scale up aid” in Gaza as winter approaches.

In a post on X, the UN’s relief chief said the figure brings the total funds allocated by his agency to Gaza to $20m and that the money will be used to “deliver food, water, shelter and health services, and keep essential infrastructure running”.

“The ceasefire in Gaza offers a critical window to scale up aid, ahead of winter,” he wrote.