Young people lead the way in responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
  • Date: 12/08/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland has highlighted the incredible contributions of young humanitarians in Gaza who have been working amid hellish conditions and against the odds to support people over the last ten months.   Speaking on International Youth Day ActionAid Ireland CEO Karol Balfe said: “Young people supported by ActionAid and its partners in Gaza have been leading the humanitarian response in their communities, mobilising quickly.....

ActionAid Ireland strongly condemns Israeli airstrikes on Gaza school which cost between 80 and 100 lives.
  • Date: 12/08/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland has strongly condemned the devastating Israeli military airstrikes on a school in central Gaza City which last night cost between 80 and 100 lives, and many more injured including children. ActionAid Ireland CEO, Karol Balfe, said the horrific attack on the Tabeen school where 6,000 displaced people were sheltering could amount to a.....

Al-Awda Hospital

ActionAid Ireland says Gaza residents are too malnourished to donate blood amid soaring hospital demand and widespread disease
  • Date: 02/08/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland has said a hospital in northern Gaza is having to turn away potential blood donors, despite a huge demand for blood supplies to help the sick and injured, because volunteers are so weakened from malnutrition. Despite facing appalling personal circumstances, many people selflessly responded to Al-Awda Hospital’s call-out for blood donations, but with.....