Children in Gaza face a new threat to their lives
Children in Gaza have witnessed destruction and death on an unimaginable scale. And this winter, the suffering will intensify. Torrential rain and high winds saturate tents and makeshift shelters. Clothing, blankets and bedding – even food – are soaked. With no way to get dry, children must wear clothes that are always wet, putting their lives at risk.
After everything they have already suffered, now children in Gaza must face another deadly winter. A gift from your business today can provide children with a full set of winter clothes – including a coat and boots, helping keep them warm and dry all winter long.
Time is running out for children like Fares.
Help send children life-saving protection
Imagine being a child with nowhere warm or dry to sleep. Rain flooding the tent you call home. Bitter winds cutting through your clothes. No warm blanket or safe place to escape the cold.
Around 800,000 children have been forced from their homes. They are sheltering in crowded tents and bombed-out buildings, with almost nothing between them and disease-carrying flood water and biting wind.
For a child already weak from hunger, hours of being cold and wet can be deadly. Hypothermia and pneumonia set in fast. Hospitals in Gaza are barely functioning, and medicine is scarce. Without help, many will die.
But you can help save them now.
UNICEF teams are in Gaza right now. They are ready to reach children with thermal blankets, warm clothes and medicine. Your gift today can get these supplies to them before it’s too late. Please, there isn’t a minute to lose.
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The truth of the matter is that in Gaza, children die from winter. I understand that when we think of winter in Ireland, this can be difficult to envisage. But the fact is that with lashing rain, plummeting temperatures, little effective shelter, and no opportunity to get warm and dry, a child can develop hypothermia. They need immediate, urgent medical care.Donncha O'Callaghan, UNICEF Ireland Board Director
UNICEF provides winter clothing kits to children across the Gaza Strip. Captured here is a distribution of winter clothes for children in Al Zuwayda, on 19 November 2025, as temperatures have started to drop.
Last winter, UNICEF’s teams distributed almost a million thermal blankets, provided winter clothing to approximately 330,000 children, and hundreds of thousands of tarpaulins, tents and other shelters.
By making a company donation to UNICEF Ireland, your business will support our work to save children’s lives as they face torrential rain, bitter cold and severe flooding in Gaza.
Your donation can help stock our warehouses and be ready to reach children with essential winter supplies – including thermal blankets, warm clothing, tarpaulins and shelter – and save lives.
How your company can help
Protecting children through the cold nights
Protecting children through the cold nights
Many families live under makeshift tents, or inside heavily damaged buildings with little heating or protection. But you can help send them thermal blankets now.
A gift from you today could provide families with thermal blankets – giving a child protection through the long, cold nights.
Keeping children safe from the elements
Keeping children safe from the elements
Children in Gaza have witnessed destruction and death on an unimaginable scale. And in the winter, the suffering intensifies. Help send them warm clothes today.
A gift from you today can provide children with a full set of winter clothes – including a coat and boots, helping keep them warm and dry.
Providing life-saving medical care
Providing life-saving medical care
Nowhere warm and dry to sleep. Not enough food or clean water. Danger everywhere, from dirty water and unstable buildings to rats. You can help provide essential medicine.
A gift from you today can help provide antibiotics and medicines to save children from deadly conditions like pneumonia.
This emergency is hard to witness, but it’s harder to survive.
Please rush your end-of-year donation to UNICEF today. Email [email protected] for support or to learn more.