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, and how your emergency donation to Gaza helps.
Action Against Hunger remains operational in Gaza, continuing to deliver life-saving assistance despite ongoing restrictions and limited entry of aid.
We have cautiously resumed programmes in northern Gaza, restarting water trucking across 15 locations with eight trucks per day accessing the area.
We have established Infant Young Child Feeding Mother Baby Friendly Spaces and are providing community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) support.
We’ve been able to regain access to our old warehouses, and resumed hot meal distributions. Our nutrition teams are treating displaced children for malnutrition, offering therapeutic food and mother-baby care spaces, and restoring safe water access where possible.
We are also continuing multi-purpose cash assistance, supporting community kitchens, and offering cash assistance for land and crop rehabilitation and cultivation, with support to greenhouse famers in Khan Younis to revive local food production.
Despite high inflation, cash assistance remains vital. As markets gradually reopen and more goods become available, cash enables families to meet their most urgent needs, whether food, medicine or shelter, while supporting local traders and restoring market activity.
Financial service providers are also resuming operations, improving access to funds more safely and flexibly.
Even under the ceasefire, the UN remains one of the very few organisations able to import supplies into Gaza, as most international humanitarian organisations face access barriers linked to INGO registration.
Partnering with UN agencies allows Action Against Hunger limited access to essential supplies. However, unrestricted access into and within Gaza, through all crossing points, is urgently needed to ensure effective aid delivery.
Before the Israeli military incursion into Gaza City in September 2025, our teams were treating a total of 430 children under five for varying degrees of malnutrition in Gaza City.
Nearly half have since fled south with their families. We are working to track, refer, and continue treatment through our clinics in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis. Now, with the recent ceasefire, many of these cases are moving back North.
Our teams are conducting needs assessments to understand where families have relocated, and during this time, we will continue to track and refer our malnutrition cases to the closest services, providing ready-to-use therapeutic food to those in need, and following-up cases daily.
We also provide infant and young child feeding and mother friendly spaces across six active nutrition sites.
We have nearly 100 full-time staff across Gaza, including nine international team members working in water trucking, logistics, and security.
Most were forced to relocate to safer areas after Israeli displacement orders in the North, with only a small number remaining in Gaza City.
Many have faced loss or forced displacement, and we continue to call for the protection of humanitarian workers and support our staff as they carry out their mission with courage and professionalism.
Action Against Hunger teams in Gaza have suffered three losses of dear colleagues in Gaza. Mohamed, Obada and Mustafa were killed in Israeli airstrikes. All civilians, including humanitarian aid workers, must be protected.
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 1.3 million people in Gaza, thanks to our teams on the ground.
In the West Bank, Action Against Hunger implements a range of activities to address the critical needs of vulnerable men, women, children and communities facing violence and displacement, providing:
In the last two years, we have helped almost 100,000 people in the West Bank.
Sustained operations require urgent and ongoing funding, even during the ceasefire. Even with severe restrictions, Action Against Hunger remains operational across Gaza and the West Bank.
Our teams continue to deliver aid where access is possible and prepare for immediate scale-up when conditions allow.
Funds are vital to sustain this readiness, maintaining staff on the ground, relocating to safer zones, replenishing dwindling supplies, and prepositioning life-saving materials such as food parcels, water, sanitation equipment and other vital supplies.
While access is constrained, funding ensures we can act immediately and not wait to raise resources. It allows us to support local procurement, logistics, and emergency response capacity to keep operations running.
Page last updated: 27 October 2025
Our teams are still in Gaza delivering food, water and nutrition support. They’re trying to reach as many people as possible with whatever resources they have available.
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