HELP US REBUILD CHILDHOODS IN GAZA
Life in Gaza is hell on earth. Nearly every single child is at risk of famine. For children like Lana*, the first baby to be born at Save the Children’s new maternity unit in the Gaza Strip, every day is a battle for simple survival.
YOUR $120 GIFT COULD GIVE MOTHERS A SAFE PLACE FOR EMERGENCY DELIVERIES
With your generous support, Save the Children’s workers are with them on the frontlines—delivering lifesaving aid, protection, and education. Last year, we established a maternity unit in a partner’s Emergency Medical Team in Gaza. The team rapidly set up a safe, clean environment where women could access essential reproductive and newborn care. Our pediatric doctor and nurse began catering to wounded children immediately, and Lana* became the first newborn delivered at the facility.
None of this would have been possible without the compassion and generosity of our donors. Please donate now to support newborns like Lana* and help create a lasting difference for children who need it most.
*Names changed to protect their identity.
What’s happening in Gaza right now?
More than 93% of the children in Gaza – about 930,000 children – are at critical risk of famine. The war in Gaza and Israeli authorities' total siege on the entry of aid and goods have pushed families to take unimaginable measures to survive. Without urgent action to end the siege and to allow food and medicine into Gaza, one million children are at risk of starvation, disease and ultimately death.
A 25-year-old mother of four in northern Gaza, whose children were receiving treatment for malnutrition at Save the Children’s healthcare clinic during the brief pause in fighting, said: “We know what hunger feels like - we’ve tasted death. Our children are just waiting their turn to die.”
We urgently need international action to protect children and families now. Please donate now to children in Gaza, the West Bank and around the world, where the needs are most urgent.
OUR RESPONSE AND IMPACT
Save the Children has been supporting Palestinian children since 1953 and has maintained a permanent presence in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) since 1973. With 345 staff members and casual workers, including 259 currently in Gaza, and 11 active partner organisations (7 in Gaza and 5 in the West Bank), we are uniquely positioned to deliver a comprehensive response to the urgent needs of children and families.
Amidst extremely challenging conditions, we’ve been working around the clock to find ways to deliver aid to children. Our response has significantly scaled up since October 2023, leveraging our existing footprint, technical expertise, and partnerships to address the evolving humanitarian crisis.
As of 11 March 2025, Save the Children and its partners have reached more than 1.5 million people across the occupied Palestinian territory, including over 1.4 million people in Gaza.
Despite immense challenges, we are providing lifesaving aid, safe spaces, healthcare, and advocating for peace:
- We have been providing essential services and support since the start of this crisis. Alongside local partners, we’re distributing vital supplies to families across shelters and households - drinking water, food, hygiene products, mattresses, blankets, learning materials, toys, and games. We’re providing communities with clean water through water trucking, installing latrines in shelters and conducting health and hygiene promotion sessions. We are supporting families with winter supplies, including covers, blankets and mattresses. Via partners we are delivering food kits to families. The food kits include date, paste, tuna, jam, sugar, plates, cups and spoons, thyme, tea, cheese, halva, tahini, canned meat, chickpeas, beans, wet wipes, and olive oil. Alongside partners we are deploying staff to keep shelters clean, critical to helping keep disease outbreaks at bay. We are also installing latrines in shelters.
- We’re providing cash to families so they can buy food and any other essentials.
- We conducted a market assessment in Gaza and gathered food insecurity data which informed the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) - the global scale to classify food and nutrition crises.
- We’re running Child Friendly Spaces, ensuring children have a safe space to play, receive psychosocial support and escape from the traumatic experiences they’re enduring.
- Our Health programming is providing primary healthcare and maternal and newborn care and we’re screening and treating children for acute malnutrition. We are providing much needed mental health and psychosocial support to children and their families.
- We are running Mother and Baby Areas with support for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Community Management of Acute Malnutrition.
- We and our partners are running Temporary Learning Spaces (TLSs) for children aged 3-12. We are providing support to children who were unable to enrol in formal schooling, having reached school age during the war. This involves learning activities designed to prepare these young learners.
- Apart from Gaza, we're also helping in the West Bank, where we've supported families facing increased settler violence by providing emergency cash and running child protection activities. In Egypt, we've ensured access to essential supplies, supported medical evacuees from Gaza, and trained first responders. In Lebanon, we've assisted displaced individuals by providing clean water, food, hygiene products, and mental health support.
Save the Children midwife Deda* (24) with new mother Tima* (26) and baby Lana* (1 day) Sacha Myers / Save the Children
