Gaza Crisis Appeal

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GAZA CRISIS APPEAL

Injured and disabled people urgently need your support

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Children search through buildings, destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on November 8, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. © Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images Europe via AFP

People in Gaza and our teams desperately need your help today

People in Gaza are living in fear day and night from the intense, heavy bombing. As the airstrikes continue, sadly, it is the most vulnerable people who are overwhelmingly being injured.

Our teams are working in the shelters where families are trying to stay safe. We are distributing essential supplies of crutches, wheelchairs, hygiene and first aid kits. And we are urgently working to ensure the needs of the most vulnerable - people with disabilities, unaccompanied children, older people and people with life-changing injuries – are prioritised.

With your help, we can start to provide desperately-needed rehabilitation and post-operative care to people who have been injured, as well as activities to support children who have been traumatised.

Whatever you can afford to give will provide immediate help to civilians caught in the middle of this brutal conflict.

PLEASE DONATE NOW

People flee as an airstrike hits a building in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on November 7, 2023. © Ashraf Amra / Anadolu via AFP

What your support can provide

Our teams in Gaza are working tirelessly to respond to the urgent humanitarian crisis, but we really need your support. Together, we can deliver:

Our activities include:

Essential supplies
Our teams are working in shelters throughout Gaza providing essential assistance, including the distribution of crutches and wheelchairs, hygiene supplies, dignity kits and first aid kits.
Rehabilitation for injured people
We are planning to provide emergency rehabilitation services for people who have sustained life-changing injuries, like amputations and spinal cord injuries.
Trauma and mental health support
People are now in “survival mode” and many have lost family members or loved ones. Psychological first aid is vital to help them cope.
Activities for traumatised children
Our volunteers have already organised games and recreational activities for more than 18,000 children in emergency shelters. These activities are important to help restore a sense of normality for children living in a warzone and ease their anxiety.
Emergency safety messages
As the daily, heavy bombing continues, sadly, it is women and children who are overwhelmingly being injured. Together with the United Nations, we have sent out text messages to 1.5 million residents with advice for how to stay as safe as possible.

Together, we can protect and support the most vulnerable people in Gaza.

Can we count on you to join us?

Palestinians leave from the northern part of the Gaza to flee the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip on November 08, 2023. © Ashraf Amra / Anadolu via AFP

Eyewitness report

Sharaf lives in Khan Younis city in the south of Gaza. He manages our team that supports vulnerable populations to access shelter, education, and rehabilitation services. He describes the situation he is witnessing inside Gaza:

“The situation is catastrophic, a crisis in a crisis. People are surrounded by a fence from the north, east and south, and sea from west. Access and border crossing is blocked by fire, from above the rain of bombs.”

“It's a state of separation from reality. Your home, father, mother and even your children, each day you have to make the choice to die all at once in one room or to be separated across the Strip.”

“Each day I receive a call or through social media that one or more of my friends were killed or injured. Just yesterday morning I had two who were killed and two injured. Each one in Gaza is living in such a situation. The dead or those who still live, each one has a story, a story of fear, new life or loss.”

Sharaf, Area Manager for HI in Gaza.