ActionAid's partner WEFAQ distributing hot food and fresh fruit and vegetables. Rafa, Gaza

ActionAid Ireland says humanitarian workers are delivering life-saving aid in Gaza despite perilous danger

  • Date: 25/07/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland has said humanitarian workers in Gaza are continuing to deliver life-saving aid to people in need, despite facing enormous dangers and challenges as conditions further deteriorate. ActionAid Ireland CEO, Karol Balfe, said staff at partner organisations have described how, against the odds and in the face of constant danger, they are still providing.....

ActionAid Ireland welcomes historic ICJ ruling declaring Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory is unlawful

  • Date: 19/07/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland has welcomed the historic judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which has declared that the Israeli Government’s continued occupation of the Palestinian territory is unlawful.  The ICJ concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territory constitutes systematic discrimination, and that its legislation and measures in the West Bank and.....

Al-Awda Hospital

ActionAid Ireland reports huge increase in injured patients being treated at its partner hospital in Gaza  in one of the bloodiest weeks since the start of the war

  • Date: 12/07/2024
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland said today that staff at its partner hospital in northern Gaza, Al-Awda, are desperately trying to cope with an influx of injured patients from Gaza City in one of the bloodiest weeks since the start of the war.   ActionAid Ireland CEO, Karol Balfe, said doctors at the hospital are working around the.....