Middle East Emergency Appeal
Famine declared in Gaza: Help provide vital humanitarian emergency assistance
Please give urgently to help provide vital humanitarian assistance to people who are starving in Gaza.
Famine has been officially declared in Gaza. Action is desperately needed to help more than half a million Palestinian people who are starving.
Innocent children and families facing starvation, critical levels of acute malnutrition and death urgently need food aid and other emergency support.
Please give today!
The humanitarian needs are unimaginable, and global action is needed now so innocent civilians can access critical care, including food and medical supplies.
Conflicts across the Middle East have resulted in hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee their homes in search of a safe place to belong.
We need to act now.
By giving today, you’re helping to equip local organisations in the Middle East to provide life-saving emergency assistance, for people who have been forced to flee their homes.
Funds are deployed through the ACT Alliance network of local organisations to provide emergency assistance.
What Our Team Say
“Our partners in the Middle East have shared the horrific atrocities which civilians and staff are facing on a daily basis,” says Act for Peace Head of Partnerships and Programs, Geoff Robinson.
“The emergency needs for healthcare, medicines and food are great, but every gift through the emergency appeal will go directly to local organisations working with the ACT Alliance to provide critical emergency support for those displaced by conflict.”
“Christian Aid’s local partners in Gaza are deeply rooted in their communities and have been the first responders to this humanitarian crisis and continue to provide lifesaving assistance to communities in need,” says Katie Roxburgh, Programme Manager, Israel & the occupied Palestinian territory, Christian Aid.
“Our locally led approach has meant that people and communities have been supported to help themselves, in the absence of a lasting ceasefire and sufficient aid entering the strip. Our partners have shown incredible adaptability and innovation, including through food, water, medical and shelter support. They are using what is available to them, including local farmers producing fruit and vegetables to distribute to the most vulnerable, rehabilitating destroyed wells for water supply and teachers setting up makeshift classrooms in shelters for children’s education. Each organisation’s deep commitment to humanitarian action is demonstrated every day through every effort to get support to communities in need – it is nothing short of humbling and inspiring. By supporting local organisations in Gaza, donors are providing lifesaving assistance to those who need it most.”
Act for peace today by giving to our Emergency Appeal to help local organisations in the Middle East to respond to this humanitarian crisis.
In caring for humankind together, we’re acting for peace in the world.
Banner Image: This picture taken on October 12, 2023 showing a child reacting as people salvage belongings amid the rubble of a damaged building following strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Image: Mohammed Abed / AFP via Getty Images.