Donate to Gaza

• Almost 40,000 people have been killed, a third of them children.
• Israeli hostages remain captive.
• Food, water, fuel and medicine are all running out.
• People are being starved. Malnutrition is rife. All of Gaza is at risk of famine.
• People are drinking dirty water, risking deadly diseases.
• Gaza's water and sanitation systems are shattered. Homes, hospitals, bakeries and water facilities have been destroyed.
• Relentless airstrikes continue to hit civilians, shelters and hospitals.

The situation is devastating. People desperately need an immediate and permanent ceasefire to end the death and destruction, allow the delivery of more aid and enable the safe release of hostages. Find out more about what is happening in Gaza.

The continuing bombardment has made a full-scale humanitarian response impossible.

Oxfam teams are working along with partners doing what they can to deliver life-saving aid, but it is not enough.

Only a small amount of aid is being allowed in by the Israeli authorities.

Even when aid gets into Gaza, Israel's ongoing violence and deliberate obstruction of the humanitarian response, makes it virtually impossible to provide help to all those that need it.

More than 2 million people are still in desperate need of aid.

So far, despite huge obstacles, we have been responding with our partners to reach over 490,000 people. These include the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Juzoor, The Cultural & Free Thoughts Association, Palestinian Environmental Friends, Palestine Agricultural Relief Committee, Atfaluna, The Association for Woman and Child Protection, the Economic and Social Development Centre of Palestine, and Al Bayader.

They have provided:

• Emergency food assistance, including fresh vegetable baskets, food parcels, cash and vouchers to over 200,000 people.
• Clean water and sanitation for over 133,000 people, by trucking in water and repairing badly damaged water and wastewater pipelines, as well as installing desalination units, water bladders and tap stands.
• First aid kits and services to support around 20,000 people in refugee camps, as well as 600 urgent family health packages, 400 hygiene kits and 3,000 protection kits.
• Thousands of blankets, pillows mattresses and sleeping mats to families to families forced to live in tents.

Oxfam and PEF are working towards providing water, sanitation and hygiene services to at least 25,600 displaced people in Rafah and Khan Younis.

Oxfam has worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel since the 1950s to help build and protect rights to water, sanitation and hygiene, cash assistance and more.

Any donation you make will help us respond. Our decision to respond in any crisis is always driven by humanitarian need alone. Even before this escalation, 80% of people living in Gaza relied on aid.

Do people have enough food and water in Gaza?

Food is being deliberately restricted. Starvation is being used as a weapon of war. A fifth of the population are experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger. All of Gaza is at high risk of famine.

Right now, 2.1 million people trapped in Gaza don’t have enough food and water. Some of the food allowed in, like rice and lentils, is of limited use as people have little clean water or fuel to be able to cook them.

There is not enough clean, safe water in Gaza. The situation is desperate.

Oxfam’s latest report, Water War Crimes, finds that Israel’s cutting of external water supplies, systematic destruction of water facilities and deliberate obstruction of aid have reduced the amount of water available in Gaza by 94 per cent to 4.74 litres a day per person – just under a third of the recommended minimum for survival in emergencies and less than a single toilet flush.

The ongoing hostilities are making it far harder to respond at the scale that's needed. An immediate and permanent ceasefire is desperately needed.

• Join us in calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire now
• Sign our petition calling for an end to UK arms sales to Israel
• More suggestions for how to help Gaza

• Read the latest press release
• Read more about what's happening in Gaza and Israel
• Read frequently asked questions

How we spend your money

For every £1 you donate to this emergency appeal, we will allocate 9p of your donation to cover general support and running costs. There is a small chance that we will raise more money than is needed for this appeal. If this happens, we'll spend any additional funds on other Oxfam projects — wherever the need is greatest.