Gaza Appeal
Note: All gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible. Any donations received that exceed what is required to support this emergency will be directed to other areas of greatest humanitarian need, helping assist more children facing global crises and conflicts.
All 4-weekly donations automatically join our Change for Girls program, helping to create long-term transformation for girls and their communities.
Photo: A suffering generation. © Fatima Hassouna / Plan International
Children never start wars, but they are the ones who suffer the most.
As a humanitarian organisation that advocates for the rights of children, we are devasted and horrified by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Aid is trickling into Gaza at a speed that cannot meet even a fraction of the humanitarian need. In this context, every truck and every donation is a lifeline.
Plan International is one of very few international organisations with access to Gaza, and we have been able to reach 96,000 people with food and clean water since 2 August, but we need to do so much more.
As of 21 October, Plan International have successfully dispatched 57 trucks of live-saving humanitarian aid to Gaza through the Egyptian humanitarian corridor. Together, these 57 trucks carry enough supplies to reach more than 250,000 people with food, dignity kits, and hygiene kits.
Every hour counts for the children and families in Gaza. We urgently need your help to deliver life-saving food and supplies before time runs out.
Help children and their families in Gaza
During conflict, it is children who suffer the most.
Gaza has been described as the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Right now, hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of famine and death – innocent victims in a conflict that has turned every day into a struggle to survive.
The situation is catastrophic. After months of siege and violence, famine is imminent. Even aid workers, our own colleagues, are standing in the same food lines, facing the same hunger.
Acute malnutrition in children is widespread. Over 1.8 million people face crisis-level hunger. Virtually every household is skipping meals daily so children can eat.
Emergency medical care and clean water is nearly impossible to find as infrastructure collapses.
One aid worker told us “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”
No child should ever know famine, this crisis is entirely human-made.
Your donation to our Gaza appeal can bring hope and relief to those who need it most.
Photo: Latifah, 37, hugs her four-year-old son. © Plan International
Protect children and families from this humanitarian catastrophe
Urgent action needed
For the first time in months, the Israeli authorities have announced that they will allow international agencies to enter Gaza with life-saving aid. We do not know how long this temporary aid window will last.
Plan International and our partner, the Egyptian Red Crescent, already have trucks loaded with food and other life-saving supplies crossing the border.
But we urgently need your help. This temporary aid window will close, possibly at any moment, and we need funds to purchase critical supplies for these convoys.
The situation in Gaza remains dire:
- Mass starvation has spread across Gaza
- Thousands of children are still separated from their families and need urgent protection from trafficking and exploitation.
- The destruction of water and sanitation systems has left children at risk of deadly diseases like cholera and diarrhoea.
- Families are drinking unsafe water, and healthcare has completely collapsed under the strain of disease outbreaks and severe injuries
Children will continue to die without urgent action. Donate to Gaza.
Every hour counts for the children and families in Gaza
Protecting children and delivering life-saving aid
The need is immense, international agencies must deliver up to 5,000 tons of food into Gaza daily to prevent famine. Each truck carries just 25 tons.
Plan International has teams and local partners ready to move up to 34 trucks per day – but we urgently need your support to buy these critical supplies and reach children before the border closes again.
Your gift to our Gaza appeal today will go straight towards:
- Purchasing and delivering food, flour, and nutrition directly to families
- Offering shelter and bedding for children and families
- Distributing dignity and hygiene kits to protect girls and families from disease
Every hour we wait, even more children are at risk if they do not receive urgent supplies.
Photo: First aid kits ready for transportation to Gaza. © Plan International
You can provide life-saving supplies to children and their families
Update from Plan International Egypt
Since 6 August, Plan International have delivered seven trucks carrying vital food baskets – enough to sustain 31,000 people for three days. These food baskets have been officially handed over to the Palestinian Red Crescent inside Gaza.
The food baskets delivered include rice, pasta, vermicelli, flour, tuna, fava beans, cheese, salt, sugar, tomato sauce, yeast, and cooking oil – tailored to meet basic nutritional needs.
We have 17 more trucks waiting to pass clearance checks at the Rafah crossing and an additional 10 ready to cross the border into Gaza from Jordan.
In just under 2 weeks, our response has reached 103,549 individuals in total and we are also preparing to open six temporary learning spaces, giving children in Gaza the chance to continue their education.
We urgently need more funds so we can continue to reach as many children as possible with life-saving assistance including food, nutrition supplies, first aid kits, hygiene kits, bedding, tents and dignity kits.
The current window of aid is still open.