Children Facing Extreme Hunger Crisis

The Gaza Strip is on the brink of famine. Millions of children are at risk of dying from starvation. Their frail, weak bodies are barely clinging onto life, and the worst has yet to come. 

Gaza’s children have already endured so much – years of conflict, months of intensive bombardments, loved ones killed, homes and communities completely destroyed. Now they’re trying desperately to survive severe hunger, while ongoing violence continues to threaten their lives every day.

Right now, for thousands of families in the Gaza Strip, the threat of dying from hunger is very real. Immediate and critical action is needed to prevent an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Children’s lives are hanging in the balance.

Every minute counts and children desperately need your life-saving help. Donate today and help send food, water and medicine to children in Gaza. Together, we can fend off famine, but we need your urgent support to do so. 

Please donate now. 

Shaima, aged 8, stands crushed up against a steel bar waiting to receive a meal. Every day, she waits for 2 hours in the hope of bringing food back to her family. “I’ve been waiting here for two hours, but I haven’t gotten any food. My mother and my little sister are waiting for me. They haven’t eaten since yesterday.”

Donate now and help send life-saving food to children in Gaza.

Together, we can fend off famine, but we need your urgent support to do so.

Please donate now

Save a Child Like Nour

The entire population of Gaza is facing dire hunger with at least 335,000 children – that’s every single child under the age of five – at immediate risk of severe acute malnutrition. 10,000 of them are already so desperately sick they could die unless they get urgent help.  

11-year-old Nour is so weak and ill from malnutrition that she requires oxygen to help her breath. Her tiny, frail body is battling for survival. No child should have to suffer like this.  

Life-saving aid is mere kilometers away and with your help, UNICEF supplies will cross the border to reach children in need. Please donate today and help send more trucks, filled with emergency food and clean water, into Gaza.  

Your help can’t come quick enough.

Nour, 11-year-old suffers from acute malnutrition in Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip.

 Children urgently emergency food supplies right now.

Please will you help them?

How You Can Make a Difference Right Now

Please help children before it’s too late. A gift from you right now can bring a child back from the brink of death. Donate what you can today.

  • €150 gives enough therapeutic milk to help feed 9 babies who are too weak to eat.
  • €75 provides peanut paste to help treat 8 children for severe acute malnutrition, saving their lives.
  • €50 supplies high-energy biscuits and supplements to help prevent 5 children from developing malnutrition.

Donate now

“I ate a small amount of food. This was my first meal since yesterday afternoon.” Selin, 7-year-old – Gaza Strip

Other Ways to Donate

You can make a donation by phone, you can reach us on 01 878 3000, our office hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 – 17:30.

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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