As the conflict in Gaza rages on, the epic scale of the devastation affects everyone. But it has been especially brutal for women and children – shockingly, they account for 72% of civilian deaths. Over half of Gaza’s population are children – so many will now require lifelong care because they’ve had to endure trauma, loss, injuries and amputations without anaesthesia. Countless children are now completely on their own having lost their mam and dad, their brothers and sisters.
ActionAid teams and partners in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon continue to risk their lives to deliver food, blankets, healthcare, and more to those in desperate need.
Your donation will help families in Gaza and other places where emergencies and conflict wreck havoc.
The situation in Gaza continues to be unimaginable. People are devastated, traumatised, homeless. They are grieving lost loved ones. Malnutrition is everywhere.
But, thanks to the generosity of supporters, we have reached over 650,879 people directly with humanitarian relief in Gaza.
ActionAid has been working in Palestine since 1993. Our colleagues and partners are part of the local community. They know the dangers, the challenges – and the solutions. But they urgently need help.
Your donation will support our work in Gaza and other emergency responses. Find out more about how we support women during emergencies.
Can you support families in Gaza, and elsewhere in the world facing conflict and emergencies?
Amani is a 29-year-old mother who has been displaced multiple times and is now staying in a tent with her family of five after they were displaced by the Israeli military campaign on Gaza. She has three children, aged 12, nine and six months, and says she struggles to access enough food to meet their needs. The family is surviving on nothing but bread and lentils and she is unable to find formula or baby food for her youngest.
‘My infant needs food; He needs formula and baby food, but I can’t provide it. This war took us decades back in time. We have nothing. The life we live now is unbearable’
Doctor Aaliyah is a 32-year-old doctor who specialises in maternity and infant healthcare. Before the war, the nursery ward would usually have a maximum of 10 or 11 babies receiving incubator care at a time, but currently, she says they are treating 70 babies.
‘We can rarely get baby formula for infants. Even breastfeeding mothers suffer.
They don’t have enough food to produce milk and feed their babies.’
Donations to this appeal will reach the frontline of need quickly and will be put to work to improve – and even save – the lives of babies, children, mams and dads in Gaza and other countries where conflict and emergencies strike.
In Gaza, ActionAid and our partners continue to:
Once the fighting stops, we will be ready to work with local women’s leadership groups to plan the recovery and rebuilding for the people of Gaza.
Your gift won’t just make a huge difference for people in Palestine – we’re also assisting the most-in-need families and refugees in the wider region and elsewhere in the world. People who are trapped in the hell of emergencies or conflict.
Please, make an urgent life-saving donation to help families in greatest need today.
ActionAid partner Wefaq distributing hot food, fresh fruit and vegetables.
