What’s happening in Gaza right now?
The humanitarian emergency in Gaza is catastrophic. Aid is desperately needed. Food supplies are virtually gone and the medical system is in ruins. Gaza faces the devastating risk of famine, with 470,000 people on the brink of mass starvation. Essential humanitarian supplies, including critical medication and infant formula, are completely unavailable.
- At least 54,084 people have died, including 16,854 children.
- 470,000 people are facing starvation.
- Over 123,300 have been injured.
- Only 12 out of 29 hospitals in Gaza are functioning, with limited capacity.
- 90% of Gaza’s 2.1million population has been displaced.
Despite risks to their lives, dwindling aid and a lack of food, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are working tirelessly with the resources they have, day in and day out to help the people of Gaza.
“The situation is only getting worse, where people not only struggle to have access to food, but also access to clean water and medicine, and to receive proper healthcare services,” said Palestine Red Crescent Society spokesperson Nebal Farsakh.
We need your donations urgently to support the life-saving emergency response work of the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the ICRC in Gaza.
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How to help Gaza
If you are in the UK, the best and quickest way to help support people in Gaza and affected areas like the West Bank is to donate to this appeal.
You can further support our work by setting up a regular charity donation which helps us plan and respond to the emergency in Gaza quickly. It also helps you to plan your giving and gives you the flexibility to change it at any time.
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Where will your money go?
Your charity donation to the Gaza Crisis Appeal will support people now and those potentially affected in the future by this crisis. We have rigorous checks in place to make sure that humanitarian aid is delivered to those who need it. The unparalleled reach of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement provides us with a range of options to ensure that your donations are used as efficiently and effectively as possible to reach those in need.
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How your donation helps people in Gaza
Your donation helps fund the Palestine Red Crescent Society and The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who have been on the ground since conflict escalated and continue to save lives, distribute aid and give hope.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has:
- provided over 1.6 million emergency relief items
- almost 1,500 staff and volunteers working
- supported over 900,000 people with health services
- provided psychosocial support to more than 131,000 people
- distributed around 1,000 hot meals daily to displaced people
- set up four water purification stations
- reached over 100,000 people with life saving services
- operated 29 medical points and clinics
- set up 27 camps for displaced people in Gaza
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“It’s becoming harder to meet the most basic needs”
Amr works for the Palestine Red Crescent in Gaza.
He walks more than 10 kilometres a day, to the office and home and to try and buy essentials for his family. Like other staff and volunteers of the Palestine Red Crescent, he leaves his home each day not knowing if he will return.
“It’s becoming harder every day to meet even the most basic needs,” Amr said in a text.
He has lost friends and family, including his brother and brother-in-law. People in Gaza want the world to know about the situation they face, Amr said.
“Gaza is a place where you can see a doctor who lost his family while saving others, families living in cemeteries, a boy who lost his entire family, a little girl asking for her mother who was killed,” he said.
Despite exhaustion and heartache, Amr’s focus is on his hope for peace: “For my children to sit at a school desk again, for us to rebuild our shattered lives. But I also know that, after all we have endured, we need a chance to heal.”
While reaching people with vital aid and food is the immediate priority, the longer-term needs in Gaza will be immense. When the people of Gaza begin to rebuild their lives, we will be there to support them every step of the way.
Find out more about how the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement has been supporting people in Gaza.
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The importance of humanity, neutrality and impartiality
We are a charity organisation that stands for humanity, neutrality and impartiality in times of crisis. Our aim is to relieve suffering with compassion and dignity, helping anyone in need, wherever they are. Our neutrality allows us to access communities, gain trust, and to get help where it’s needed most.
Decisions on when and where we provide support to those suffering are based on where the need is greatest. We are not here to take sides. We are not here to measure one life against another. We are here to relieve suffering – and we will continue to do all we can.
Information about this appeal
Gift Aid claimed on charity donations received in response to this appeal will be used to fund the whole of our work. In the event there are surplus funds raised for this appeal these will be used for the general charitable purposes of the British Red Cross. If you sign up to a regular charity donation, your gift will be supporting the Gaza Crisis Appeal until 30th June 2026, after the 30th June your regular donation will support people wherever the need is greatest.
Gaza has become worse than hell on Earth
Mirjana Spoljarić, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)