Press releases and statements

Statement from Jean-Michel Grand, Executive Director of Action Against Hunger UK, on the ceasefire to end the conflict in Gaza coming into effect on 19th January 2025.

"Before the conflict, 500 trucks a day couldn’t meet the needs of Gaza’s population. Now, with entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, thousands of families displaced, and critical infrastructure in ruins, the response must scale up dramatically."

Ninety per cent of the population are living below the poverty line, and 12.9 million are facing acute hunger.

Over 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon in the last year and more than 1 million people fled their homes to escape the violence.

This year’s event raised over £300,000 to support the organisation’s vital work in predicting, preventing, and treating life-threatening hunger and malnutrition across more than 50 countries

Discussions on public financing at COP29 failed to deliver meaningful solutions.

The organisation is also warning that stagnant floodwaters in Valencia are creating severe health hazards, with the risk of infectious disease outbreaks escalating rapidly.

Urgent climate finance and systemic change is needed to protect vulnerable communities facing rising hunger due to the climate crisis

Last week, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee issued an urgent warning: northern Gaza is now facing a ‘worst-case scenario’ for famine

Kate Munro, Head of Advocacy at Action Against Hunger UK, emphasises the need to reinstate aid funding to protect lives and reaffirm the UK’s commitments on the world stage

Action Against Hunger joins forces with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to raise urgent funds to help people affected by the escalating conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.

Several health workers and civilians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in recent days