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Famine in Gaza is imminent.
The entire population, including more than 1 million children, are facing high or catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity. Virtually all households are skipping meals, with parents going without so their children can eat.
"The speed at which this catastrophic child malnutrition crisis in Gaza has unfolded is shocking...the situation for children is getting worse by each passing day." Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director
No Food. No Water. Nowhere is safe for children in Gaza.
For more than 6 months, children and families in Gaza have been living in fear, as ongoing attacks and displacement continue. The shortage of essentials, especially food, water and medicines is putting kid's lives at risk every single day.
We're in Gaza providing life-saving humanitarian support to those most in need. However, more support is urgently needed with famine imminent and every child in Gaza at risk of malnutrition.
Please donate to help send urgent aid to children in Gaza and the wider State of Palestine.
Three challenges facing UNICEF in the Gaza Strip
How Can My Donation Make A Difference?
A donation of $90 could provide an emergency first-aid kit to help injured children and families in need of urgent medical care.
A donation of $60 could provide 100 packets of life-saving ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat malnourished kids.
A donation of $27 could provide 2,500 water purification tablets to ensure children forced to flee their homes have access to clean drinking water.
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How's UNICEF responding in Gaza?
We're on the ground, alongside our humanitarian partners, delivering immediate support, including medical supplies, clean water, fuel, hygiene, nutrition supplements, sanitation and hygiene supplies, and mental health and psychosocial support.
Despite the ongoing challenges, we're working to move life-saving supplies across the border and into Gaza whenever logistically possible. Since October 21st, we've moved 709 trucks of humanitarian supplies into Gaza.
So far we've provided safe drinking water to more than 1.6 million people, critical water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) supplies to 472,381 people, medical supplies for more than 609,785 people, and winter clothing and blankets for 160,205 kids.
In the last two weeks, 81 trucks brought critical emergency supplies into Gaza - including 15,000 packages of high energy biscuits, 3,700 cartons of ready-to-use therapeutic food, 25,400 sanitary items, 12,500 hygiene kits, 3,100 Adolescent Girls’ Personal Care packages, 6,000 plastic tarpaulins, and 1,300 sets of clothing.
Since October, UNICEF has provided psychosocial support services to over 174,000 people in Gaza, including more than 126,000 children. And we've provided humanitarian cash assistance to 83,890 households.
The delivery of aid is a matter of life or death for children in Gaza. However, the conditions to provide that aid are not consistently being met and our humanitarian response is unable to keep up with the growing needs of more than 1 million children. We need an immediate and long-lasting ceasefire to enable the urgent delivery of lifesaving aid.
The humanitarian situation is extremely precarious, we must be able to safely access children and their families with life-saving supplies and services – wherever they may be.
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Other ways you can donate
If you'd like to donate over the phone, call our friendly team on 0800 243 575.
If you'd like to donate direct to our bank account, please use account 01-0505-0463764-00 and the code 'gaza-ws'.
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If you'd like to fundraise with your community to support our work, you can start a fundraiser here.
Disclaimer:
In the event that funds raised exceed UNICEF's funding requirements, the appeal no longer needs funding, or the decision is made to close this appeal, your one-off or ongoing monthly donation will go to our Greatest Need Appeal. Where possible we will communicate this with you, however in some circumstances this might not be possible.
Your life-saving monthly donations will support this appeal for a period of twelve months. After that they will go into our Greatest Need Fund to save and protect kids worldwide.
UPDATED: 23rd April, 2024
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