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Gaza’s children are being bombed in their tents and make-shift shelters as their living nightmare continues. This massacre comes after they’ve been cut off from food and aid.
Famine has now officially been confirmed in Gaza. Over 100 children have died from starvation. They are being starved by design.. We cannot sit by and let this continue.
Children in Gaza are terrified; terrified they may be killed at any moment; terrified that they may not be able to find any more food or water to survive.
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Why monthly donations are important
Now, more than ever, children in Gaza and around the world need your help.
Donations during this emergency have allowed us to act fast. But by giving monthly, you can help us be by a child's side within days, whenever disaster strikes.
Your monthly gift will mean that our teams can provide continuous support, offering vital food, healthcare and education to children in urgent need around the world. It also allows us to support children as they move out of survival mode and begin to start living again.
With a monthly donation, you can make a lasting impact on the lives of children in Gaza and around the world.
What's happening in Gaza
The suffering being inflicted on children in Gaza is unfathomable. In over 21 months of conflict, over 18,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Many more perished from hunger and disease.
In 2024, the occupied Palestinian territory, specifically Gaza, became the deadliest place on earth to be a child. During the first year of the war, life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly 35 years. It is now just 40.6 years old. In 2023, it was 75.5 years old.
Gaza is now officially in famine. Children are dying because of starvation and malnutrition.
We have been warning about this impending tragedy for months. The situation was predictable—and preventable.
Famine means a population faces extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition, and death. In Gaza, over 100 children have already died from starvation.
Our health clinics report children too weak to cry, and in our child-friendly spaces, more and more children are expressing a wish to die. One child told us:
“I wish I was in heaven where my mother is. In heaven there is love, there is food, there is water.”
Behind these appalling stats are the stories of individual children. These children have names, dreams, and futures. They want to be teachers, doctors, astronauts - just like children everywhere.
But they are being starved by design. Since March, Save the Children has been blocked from delivering a single truck of aid. All available evidence indicates that starvation is being used as a weapon of war
We refuse to allow this suffering to be normalised. The siege must end. Aid must flow freely. Children must be protected.
Denying humanitarian aid is a crime under international law and a grave violation againchildren. The halt on aid must be immediately reversed and humanitarian assistance mus
Your donation will help vulnerable children wherever the need is greatest.
Our CEO on the plight of Gaza's children
“Today’s confirmation of famine in Gaza by the IPC is the official stamp on a tragedy we have been warning about for months. The UK - and Israel's other allies - cannot say they didn’t know this would happen. We have all watched this disaster play out on our screens. The UK public is rightly outraged.
This is a man-made famine that was entirely preventable. All evidence points to one conclusion - starvation is being used as a weapon of war, and humanitarian aid has been used as an instrument of occupation.
The UK Government cannot turn away. To refuse to act is to be complicit.
This siege and the weaponisation of aid must end. Essential supplies must flow without hinderance on political grounds. The UK must suspend all arms transfers to Israel, including components for F-35 fighter jets used to rain terror on civilians. The UK must act against those that are responsible for these atrocities."
Moazzam Malik, CEO Save the Children UK
What we're doing to help children
Our incredible supporters have not let the world forget Gaza’s children – giving what they can and speaking out for a ceasefire. With their support, Save the Children has been able to reach more than 1.5 million people in Gaza.
While operations in Gaza are becoming more challenging by the day, Save the Children remains committed to providing lifesaving aid to the children of Gaza. Working with local partner organisations, we are:
- Running two primary health care centres to provide maternal and newborn care and screening and treating children for acute malnutrition
- Carrying out water trucking so that families have safe water to drink
- Running child friendly spaces to ensure children have a safe space to play, receive psychosocial support and escape from the traumatic experiences they’re enduring
- Providing cash to families so they can buy food and any other essentials
Save the Children staff in Egypt prepare supplies for Gaza
With your support, we’ll be there for many more children, for as long as they need us, so they can start to recover and see beyond tomorrow.
Your donation will help vulnerable children wherever the need is greatest.
We're here for the long haul
Right now, following the Government of Israel imposing a total siege of all humanitarian and commercial supplies into Gaza, we've had to suspend most of our operations. Aid must reach children. The halting of aid threatens to plunge children back into a catastrophic reality and we are ready to scale up as soon as we can get more aid in.
We’ll set up temporary learning centres and safe spaces for children to play and be children again. We’ll provide individual and group counselling to children subjected to months of terrifying violence. And we stand ready to help rebuild Gaza’s shattered education system.
Today, the future for Gaza’s children hangs in the balance. It’s a moment of hope, but also one of peril.
No matter what, we’ll be there for Gaza’s children.
With your support, we’ll deliver lifesaving support for as long as it’s needed.
By donating, you can make sure Save the Children is exactly where we need to be to stand with children in crisis.
Your donation will help vulnerable children wherever the need is greatest.
Meet Baby Lana
When Tima* found out she was pregnant in July 2023, she was excited to be having her second child and started to think about how she would spoil her new baby.
Then in October 2023, the war in Gaza started and everything changed. Tima and her family were displaced multiple times as fighting expanded across the Gaza strip. They now live in a tent in central Gaza.
Tima was very worried about where she would give birth safely, given the continuous attacks on healthcare facilities during the war.
Save the Children’s Emergency Health Unit have set up a maternity unit in the Gaza Strip. Baby Lana* arrived on 26 April 2024 and was the first baby to be born at the new maternity unit.
Although baby Lana was healthy when she left the hospital, after three days she became unwell. Tima was quick to bring her daughter back to the hospital where she was admitted. Lana had contracted sepsis due to the tough living conditions, including very limited access to clean water and washing facilities.
If left untreated, sepsis can easily kill a baby. However, thanks to Tima’s quick actions, a course of antibiotics and close monitoring in the inpatient facility, baby Lana has made a full recovery.
* Names changed to protect their identity
