New Zealand will provide an additional $5 million to the World Food Program and Unicef for humanitarian support in Gaza, the country’s foreign minister has said.

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic,” Winston Peters wrote on X.

“New Zealand will provide a further $5m to the World Food Programme and Unicef for emergency food, sanitation and health assistance. This brings NZ’s total humanitarian support for those impacted by the Israel-Hamas conflict to $22m,” he added.