Families enduring the unimaginable

Why Gaza? 

Gaza is facing a humanitarian catastrophe on an unprecedented scale. 

Years of intense bombardment, ground operations, and siege have devastated civilian infrastructure. Over 1.9 million people, about 90% of Gaza’s population, are displaced. Many have been forced to move again and again, seeking shelter in damaged buildings, overcrowded camps, or makeshift tents, without the basics needed to survive.

Right now in Gaza, food, clean water, and medical care are in critically short supply, resulting in illness and malnutrition. Aid access remains severely restricted.  

The situation is worsened by the collapse of essential services. Gaza’s few remaining health facilities are overwhelmed and under-resourced, struggling to cope with the rising number of injuries, outbreaks of disease, and a lack of medical supplies. 

Meanwhile, airstrikes and attacks continue to hit areas where civilians are sheltering or seeking aid at distribution points, causing mass casualties.  

Nowhere is safe. 

What are we doing?

Despite the conditions in Gaza, ReliefAid’s team, all of them displaced themselves, continue to deliver aid. 

Delivering water

In southern Gaza, our team delivers safe drinking water to 2,000 people every day. This water is sourced from boreholes and treated at one of the few remaining operational desalination plants inside Gaza, ensuring water delivery without dependence on border access. 

This means that even if the borders are closed into Gaza, your support still makes an impact. 

Gaza’s water infrastructure is on the brink of collapse with a small minority of drinking-water facilities remaining functional. This means families who would otherwise be forced to drink unsafe, dirty water – resulting in the spread of disease. 

Each month we distribute water to over 60,000 people, costing just $0.80 per person – a small investment with the power to safeguard lives. 

Delivering food

During the conflict our team in Gaza has distributed ready-made meals and food packages to families sheltering in displacement camps. Here’s what we have done:  

• Northern Gaza and Khan Yunis: initial distributions at the start of the conflict included locally purchased and prepared meals. 
• As fighting intensified, including attacks on Khan Yunis, much of our northern team, along with a significant percentage of the population, relocated to Rafah in southern Gaza. 
• In southern Gaza, we continued distributing food packages sourced within Gaza, and ReliefAid managed to bring in and distribute a truckload of food just before aid crossings were fully blocked. 

With borders blocked, limited aid is getting into Gaza. Families are starving – children are going days without food, and malnutrition is soaring. This is a man-made famine.

Act now: Join us to support our ongoing water distributions and/or demand action to end the suffering. Your support makes a difference. 

Every dollar helps us deliver the essentials: safe drinking water is vital for families. But we are racing against time, Gaza cannot wait. With our delivery costs so low, a small donation goes a long way. 

Please donate now and help ReliefAid keep families alive in Gaza. 

Our team in Gaza 

ReliefAid has been operating with dedicated teams in both northern and southern Gaza since the beginning of the war. The cost of this war has been devastating. In northern Gaza, seven members of our team have been tragically killed in missile attacks, and two remain critically injured. 

In the south, our team continues their life-saving work – distributing clean water every day to families sheltering in displacement camps. Ahmad, our team leader in southern Gaza, describes the daily reality: 

The situation is extremely difficult. Food is scarce, and what’s available is often unaffordable or lacking nutrition. My family and the kids are holding on, but it’s not easy, especially with the constant worry and uncertainty.

Despite the danger and hardship, Ahmad shows up every day to support others: 

When I share the water, I also share the joy and love. I work and I have a message to deliver. That we have a life, and this life should be good with potable water, and smiles, and doing good things to help others.

Read more about Ahmad’s story here. These are the people behind our work, risking everything to support families in their community.  

Even in the darkest moments, your support can bring hope to Gaza’s families. Donate now to stand with our team and those they support.