Children of Gaza Crisis

Disease. Dehydration. Malnutrition. This is Gaza for kids.

Since October last year, children and families in Gaza have been living in fear, as ongoing attacks and displacement continue. Every child in Gaza has experienced trauma, including destruction of their homes and communities, and severe shortages of the essentials such as food, water, and medicine.

Right now, more than 1.5 million children need urgent humanitarian assistance.

Since the conflict intensified, UNICEF has reached hundreds of thousands of children with therapeutic food, clean water, medical supplies and sanitation and hygiene services - however as the conflict continues, kids are being deprived of the basics. We're doing as much as we can to reach those in greatest need - yet more help is urgently needed.

Humanitarian access is challenging and limited at times, however, we won’t give up trying to get critical supplies to children.

Please support the children of Gaza by making a like-saving donation today.  

This is Gaza for kids

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.

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 923 trucks of humanitarian supplies into Gaza.

So far we've provided safe drinking water to more than 2.2 million people, critical water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) supplies to 483,041 people and medical supplies for more than 167,032 people.

During the first two weeks of June, 70 trucks carry aid arrived in Gaza. Supplies included; 11,200 adult diapers, 13,428 water bottles (10-20 litres), 6,048 cartons of high energy biscuits, 2,760 cartons of the food supplement for children aged 6 months and above, 85 water tanks including holders, 38,400 collapsible water containers, 92,904 women sanitary pads and 3,544 hygiene kits.

Since October, UNICEF has provided psychosocial support services to over 226,150 people in Gaza, including more than 160,000 children. And we've provided humanitarian cash assistance to 230,000 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 1.5 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.

When polio was detected in July this year, we rapidly assessed the changing needs.

The confirmed outbreak of polio in Gaza is a new challenge that will require additional resources and effort, including vaccines, equipment and people to be able to protect children from this horrific disease. 

In late August, 1.2 million doses of the type 2 polio vaccine (nOPV) arrived in Gaza. This is enough to vaccinate over 640,000 children, and there's already another 400,000 doses on the way to keep immunising kids against polio.

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'.

Other ways to support kids in Gaza:

Help us spread awareness of the situation for kids in Gaza by sharing this appeal with your friends and family. 

If you'd like to fundraise with your community to support our work, you can start a fundraiser here.