As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens, we know many of you have questions.
Read the answers to the most frequently asked questions about our work in Gaza and the occupied Palestine territories, how we're responding.
Action Against Hunger has worked in Gaza since 2005 and in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, since 2002.
Over the past year, our teams have operated under extreme, life-threatening conditions to deliver clean water, fresh food, hygiene kits, shelter items, and sanitation services to internally displaced and vulnerable populations.
We’ve constructed latrines, installed handwashing facilities, and carried out solid waste removal to help prevent malnutrition and disease. We’ve reached over 900,000 people in Gaza, nearly half of them children, thanks to our teams on the ground.
Sustained operations require urgent and ongoing funding. While only limited aid, primarily food parcels, hygiene kits, and minimal water, is currently permitted into Gaza, we continue to procure and preposition supplies, support local partners and work with trusted contractors in the Strip.
We are also scaling up cash assistance through Multi-Purpose Case Assistance (MPCA) to households and local organisations who are supporting the population so that they can buy supplies based on their activities. This allows families, many of whom have lost income and face soaring inflation, to purchase critical items available locally, including food, shelter materials, and clothing.
Although aid entry remains constrained, targeted cash assistance ensures flexibility, dignity, and responsiveness to local needs. We continue to carry out assessments to be able to identify the changing environment and needs and plan our response accordingly.
Our work continues because of donor support. We are constantly assessing conditions to adapt our response. But without stable access and funding, the risk of total humanitarian collapse remains high.
Action Against Hunger remains deeply committed to addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and has not and will not endorse, nor agree to collaborate with any mechanism that does not comply with fundamental humanitarian principles.
We firmly support the UN-coordinated response as the most viable, principled, and immediately actionable framework for large-scale aid delivery. This system has been tested, is already operational, and remains the best pathway to reach those most in need without delay. We cannot afford to divert attention or resources from proven mechanisms when lives hang in the balance.
We urgently call for an immediate ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages, and full, unhindered humanitarian access to Gaza. Action Against Hunger continues to advocate for all parties to uphold international humanitarian law and ensure the protection of civilians.
Over 20,000 Israeli and Palestinian lives have been lost since the start of the conflict in Israel/OPT. Added to this, a lack of shelter, food, water and sanitation is increasing the risk of famine and the spread of disease.
Meanwhile, the amount of aid trucks entering Gaza are nowhere near enough to provide for the rising level of need for food, water, sanitation and fuel.
Before the conflict, 500 trucks entered Gaza every day. We’re now seeing a fraction of that and a greater risk of aid supplies being destroyed due to the almost constant barrage of bombardments.
Humanitarian aid workers are also dying in the conflict at unprecedented rates. The serious risk to workers’ lives poses a major barrier to the delivery of aid.
Given that ceasefires are legally binding and are key for us to provide aid and save lives over a longer timescale. Humanitarian pauses on the other hand are far more likely to be breached and don’t last as long – even after lengthy periods of negotiation to enforce them.
A ceasefire is the immediate aim right now in a conflict that’s at risk of becoming longer, more complex, and fatal to thousands of people.
Our teams are still in Gaza delivering life-saving water and nutrition support. They’re trying to reach as many people as possible with whatever resources they have available. Your donation today will help us to continue our work.
Explore our most recent announcements on Gaza and learn how we're reacting to protect lives in one of the most challenging humanitarian environments in the world.
Action Against Hunger warns Gaza faces imminent child malnutrition crisis, with less than a week’s supply of therapeutic food left. Fuel, water, and power shortages cripple aid delivery.
Share Action Against Hunger warns that humanitarian aid that has begun to enter the Gaza Strip is dramatically insufficient to meet the needs of a population already living on the brink of survival. Unrestricted access is urgently needed to avert humanitarian catastrophe.
One in two children malnourished due to the total blockade of humanitarian aid. The majority of households across Gaza have significant food consumption gaps, and in cases of severe malnutrition, face the risk of death.
