Donate to our Gaza Appeal
for Children in Crisis
Donate to help us reach more children and families in Gaza
Last updated: 09/12/2024
After over a year of intense hostilities throughout Gaza and the wider State of Palestine, 1.5 million children need urgent support.
60% of those killed in Gaza are women and children.
We are calling for an immediate and long-lasting humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all abducted children.
Children and families are facing repeat displacement, widespread violence, hunger and disease. Meanwhile, the risk of famine is growing and the return of polio virus continues to threaten children’s lives.
There are no safe spaces in Gaza.
How to donate to Gaza
Your donation will help us support children in Gaza and the wider State of Palestine. One of the best ways to donate to Palestine and support our work is through a monthly direct debit.
For example, you can help to alleviate the devastating effects of malnutrition with just £10 a month. This could provide a week’s worth of life-saving therapeutic food for a child.
Alternatively, you can opt for a one-off donation if you wish. £39 could provide a family with an emergency water and hygiene kit.
Whatever you choose to donate, you will help to make a difference in the lives of children in Gaza.
What are children experiencing in Gaza?
- Shelling and arson have destroyed over 94% of schools throughout Gaza.
- Around 2.2 million people have been affected by the severe lack of water and sanitation services, forcing people to use unclean water and making them vulnerable to waterborne diseases.
- Thousands of children have been cut off from treatment for moderate and severe acute malnutrition, putting them at risk of death.
These conditions are intolerable. They pose long-term threats to the quality of life for children and their families. Please donate to support Palestine and help children in Gaza today.
How are helping children in Gaza?
We continue to work with our partners and Palestinian health authorities to reach people with life-saving interventions, including vaccines. The second round of the polio vaccination campaign concluded with more than 556,000 vaccinated children, and over 448,000 receiving Vitamin A.
So far we have supported Palestinian children and families in the following ways:
- Maintained the provision of water services for around 2 million people including 800,000 children throughout Gaza City.
- Distributed over 35,000 supplies for clean water, sanitation and good hygiene practices including hygiene kits, sanitary pads and soap. This benefited 250,000 children.
- Screened 63,000 children for acute malnutrition, resulting in over 4,000 children being identified and treated with lifesaving nutrition.
- Continued to provide psycho-social support for displaced children and caregivers in areas such as Gaza, North Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah.
Unfortunately, this only meets a tiny proportion of the need. As conditions worsen and supplies quickly run out, we need your donations to help us support Palestine and reach more children.
FAQs
We continue to call for an immediate ceasefire and for the killing and targeting of all children to stop.
At the present time, to help us meet the needs of children and families in Gaza, we are calling for:
- Increased access for trucks bringing life-saving supplies into Gaza.
- Protection and access for those delivering aid.
- An immediate, long-lasting humanitarian ceasefire.
- The immediate, safe, and unconditional release of all abducted children.
- A lasting political solution to the crisis, so that children in Palestine and Israel can grow up in peace and free from the shadow of violence
We are calling for the immediate end of hostilities, and for all parties to unconditionally protect children, from harm no matter who or where they are.
We are an impartial, non-political humanitarian organisation.
While we continue to report on and advocate for the protection of all children in both Gaza and Israel, our humanitarian response is driven by the need for aid in Palestine.
Before this renewed violence, one million children needed humanitarian aid in Gaza and the West Bank. In high-income countries such as Israel, the State usually provides the supplies and services for children that we undertake or supports in lower income countries.
There is a National Committee for UNICEF in Israel – the Israeli Fund for UNICEF – that works to promote and raise awareness of children’s rights in Israel and to raise funds for our work across the world. You can find out more about its work here.
Alongside this Gaza emergency appeal, we have an ongoing humanitarian programme in Gaza. We have continued to provide supplies and services during the escalation of hostilities.
Alongside our partners, we have moved hundreds of trucks into Gaza with critical emergency supplies such as:
- Hygiene kits
- Nutritional food
- Baby nappies
- Winter clothes
- Water containers
Unfortunately, the average daily volume of humanitarian aid cargo entering Gaza has decreased by 59 per cent since April 2024.
If you’re in the UK and would prefer to donate to Gaza by phone, you can call our dedicated donation line: 0300 330 5699.
You can send in your cheque, made payable to UNICEF UK, to the Donations Team, UNICEF UK, 1 Westfield Avenue, Stratford, London E20 1HZ. Please include a covering letter with your name and address details.
If you would prefer to make a single one-off Gaza donation, you can select this option in the donation form on this page or over the phone.
One of the simplest ways to donate to Palestine is by monthly direct debit. Please donate today to support Palestine and help improve the lives of children. As little as £5 per month can provide 1,786 water purification tablets to purify water.
How will your donation be used?
For the first 6 months, your monthly Gaza donation will go towards funding our work to support children in Gaza and the wider State of Palestine. After that, donations will go to support our work around the world.
In the unlikely event that the funds raised exceed what’s needed for the Gaza emergency appeal, or if funds cannot viably be directed to this appeal, we will direct funds to support our work to help keep children safe and healthy around the world. Find out more about how and where to donate to Palestine.
