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Gaza: Starvation or Gunfire – This is Not a Humanitarian Response

  • Date: 02/07/2025
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

170+ NGOs call for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme (including the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) in Gaza, revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid and commercial supplies. The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire across Gaza have now been replaced.....

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.....