Donate to Gaza and Lebanon

• More than 40,000 people have been killed, a third of them children.
• 101 Israeli hostages remain captive.
• Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, the situation is beyond catastrophic. The Israeli army has escalated its military offensive and blocked aid. Immediate action is needed to avert it.
• Food is being deliberately restricted. Starvation is being used as a weapon of war.
• People are being starved. Malnutrition is rife. All of Gaza is at high risk of famine.
• A fifth of the population are experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger.
• Food, water, fuel and medicine are all running out.
• Gaza's water and sanitation systems are shattered. Homes, hospitals, bakeries and water facilities have been destroyed.
• There is not enough clean, safe water in Gaza. The situation is desperate.

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. The failure to reach a ceasefire, and end the atrocities in Gaza is fuelling further escalations in Lebanon and across the region.

• Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon forced more than one million people to flee their homes.
• A 60-day ceasefire agreement in Lebanon came into effect from 27 November.
• People are in need of humanitarian aid. Many homes and villages have been destroyed.
• Lebanon can’t afford to bear the weight of this added disaster on its own.

• The continuing bombardment has made a full-scale humanitarian response impossible.
• Only a small amount of aid is being allowed in by the Israeli authorities.
• More than 2 million people are still in desperate need of aid.

Despite huge obstacles, Oxfam teams have been working along with partners to reach over 490,000 people with:

• Emergency food assistance: fresh vegetables, 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.
• 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 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.

Our partners 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.

Oxfam is responding to the escalating crisis in Lebanon, providing essential support to people who have been forced to flee as Israeli airstrikes bombard their homes and communities.

With our partners we are providing:

• clean water and sanitation
• emergency cash
• food
• hygiene kits
• menstrual kits

The influx of internally displaced people, primarily from southern Lebanon, will quickly create disastrous conditions for local communities, beyond the ability of an overloaded international humanitarian system to properly meet.

Oxfam and our partners are supporting internally displaced people in shelters in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon with clean water and sanitation, emergency cash, food, and hygiene and menstrual hygiene kits.

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

• Read the latest press release
• Read Oxfam’s reaction to the violence in Lebanon
• 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.