Donate to our Gaza Appeal
for Children in Crisis
Donate to help us reach more children and families in Gaza
After months of intense hostilities in Gaza, tens of thousands of people have been killed, 60% of whom are women and children. Children have had to leave their homes, often separated from their caregivers.
Widespread violence, hunger and disease—including the resurgence of polio virus—are threatening the lives of children and families in Gaza.
Over 45,000 first graders have been unable to start the new school year due to the violence.
The risk of famine is growing and children are in urgent need of essential services. There are no safe spaces in Gaza.
How to donate to Gaza
Your donation will help us continue to deliver essential supplies and services such as vaccines and life-saving food.
For example, you can help alleviate the devastating effects of malnutrition. Just £10 a month could provide a week’s worth of life-saving therapeutic food for a child.
For £27 a month, you can help 9 children receive a single dose of oral polio vaccine.
You can also choose to make 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?
The violence and destruction of services in Gaza have left 1.7 million people displaced and 3.1 million people in need. 1 million of them are children.
- Around 2.2 million people have been affected by the severe lack of water and sanitation services, forcing people to use unclean water and become vulnerable to waterborne diseases.
- Thousands of children have been cut off from treatment for moderate and severe acute malnutrition in southern Gaza, putting them at risk of death.
- Malnourished children are at heightened risk of catching diseases and other health issues due to limited access to safe water, sewage overflow, infrastructure damage, and a lack of hygiene items.
Conditions are simply intolerable and pose long-term threats to the quality of life for children and their families. Please donate to help children in Gaza and across the State of Palestine receive the support they need to survive and grow up healthy.
How we are helping children in Gaza
We are working with our partners and Palestinian health authories to reach people with life-saving interventions, including polio vaccines, and to stop the spread of this disease.
So far we have:
- Delivered 1.6 million polio vaccines to vaccinate at least 640,000 children in two rounds. The first round took place in early September and the second round will take place in late September.
- Enabled 2700 health workers, including mobile and outreach workers, to support the delivery of both rounds of the vaccination campaign.
- Provide fuel to enable clean water supplies for 1.6 million people including 800,000 children.
- Provide psycho-social support for displaced children and caregivers in areas such as Gaza, North Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah.
- Offer lifesaving nutrition services to help children heal from acute malnutrition
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 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.
- More than anything, the children of the State of Palestine and Israel need a lasting political solution to the crisis, so that they 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.
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
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.
You can help us reach more children affected by the crisis. Please donate today and help us protect children in Gaza and the wider State of Palestine.
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.
