FAMINE WARNING

Immediate threat to children

Amid the endless bombings in Gaza, children are now at risk from a catastrophic famine that could kill thousands. 

This long-feared, worst-case scenario is on the brink of ravaging families, with the entire population facing extreme acute food shortages. Since the February ceasefire ended the number of acutely malnourished children has increased 150 per cent.

Almost 470,000 people are facing catastrophic conditions that could kill them. And 71,000 children under five years old are predicted to suffer from acute malnutrition – with 14,100 severe cases – as the crisis continues this year.

They need urgent help if they are to survive.

PLEASE DONATE NOW TO SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES IN GAZA

You can save children from deadly
malnutrition

Thousands of traumatised children in Gaza are facing the catastrophic threat of famine. Having barely survived the endless bombs raining down on their tents and deadly diseases that infest their water, children, many of them injured, are now at risk of starving to death.

Nearly the entire population of Gaza is surviving on almost nothing. It is now the hungriest place on earth. Over 470,000 people are at critical risk of catastrophic famine – many children have already died from malnutrition. For those still holding on, time is running out.

Despite the restrictions on aid supplies into Gaza, UNICEF has remained on the ground reaching children every day with life-saving food and screening thousands of children for malnutrition. But the crisis is now worse than ever

Families need your help today.

Mariam, only 2 years old, is suffering from acute malnutrition. She weighs just 5 kilograms – the average weight for a two-year-old should be around 11 kilograms. She is often too weak to eat. She urgently needs nutritional support and medical treatment.

You can help save children today from the threat of famine.

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Five-year-old Osama weighs only 5 kilograms due to severe acute malnutrition. He and thousands of more children like him desperately need life-saving food. 
Yusuf is 5 years old and has lived over a fifth of his short life amid endless war and hunger. 

Scared and hungry children need help now

Children like, 9-year-old Noor, Yusuf, 5, and Alma, 2, are living in an endless nightmare.

With dirty, ragged clothes, they wake each morning hungry and exhausted in the flimsy tents they call home. 

“We have nothing left,” Noor says. “Our three daily meals now depend on the rice we receive from charity kitchens. Sometimes water is provided by water trucks, but other times there is none.

 “I feel lonely and scared inside the tent. I am afraid I won’t wake up the next morning.”

Tragically, the situation will now get worse for children like Noor. The food they receive will get less and less until there is nothing. Famine means painful starvation. And then death.

But with your support, UNICEF can reach these children today. You can help provide them with treatment for malnutrition and life-saving food before it’s too late.  

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Your support is crucial

Children in Gaza are exhausted, sick, and in the worst cases dying from hunger and disease.

With little food or shelter and a barely functioning healthcare system, thousands are struggling to survive. Thousands have already died and more will starve to death without urgent help. 

Thanks to people like you, UNICEF has been on the ground in Gaza since the conflict began. Last year, our supporters helped provide:

  • Over 1.4 million people with life-saving food. 
  • Over 500,000 malnutrition screenings, reaching all young children at
    least once and more than 100,000 pregnant and breastfeeding
    women.
  • Safe water for 1.8 million people, including over 700,000 children, every month. 

Despite these efforts, thousands more people need ongoing, urgent help. Right now, children in Gaza face suffering and death. They need your help now. 

One-year old-Asmaa is painfully malnourished, but he has started to improve thanks to nutrition supplements provided in May by people like you.

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Thanks to people like you, UNICEF is on the ground in Gaza now providing life saving essential food and supplies – like these delivered in May – and helping children escape the nightmare of malnutrition.

How you can make a difference in Gaza right now

UNICEF is on the ground in Gaza providing life-saving support to children in urgent need.  

  • €100 can provide 2 weeks of emergency therapeutic food for 10 children.
  • €150 can provide 2 weeks of emergency therapeutic food for 15 children.
  • €250 can provide 2 weeks of emergency therapeutic food for 18 children and an emergency cash transfer for families battling starvation.

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Other Ways to Donate

You can make a donation by phone by calling 01 878 3000, from Monday to Friday between 9:00 – 5:30pm.

You can send your donation by post to

Freepost; UNICEF Ireland, 33 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin D01 R283.

In the unlikely event that the funds raised exceed UNICEF’s funding requirements for this appeal, your donation will be directed to where the need is greatest.

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