Children in Palestine are still suffering from hunger, disease and injury: you can help save them
Palestinian children across Gaza and the West Bank are being killed, injured and left to suffer amid hunger, disease and ongoing deadly attacks.
In Gaza, children are waking in the night to find disease-spreading rats biting them. They are living in filthy conditions filled with sewage. Disease is spreading fast. Hunger is rising. Bombs are still falling on children – and medicine supplies to treat those injured are running low.
In the West Bank children are facing escalating attacks. They have been shot, stabbed and beaten. Their homes demolished. Their water supplies destroyed. Their access to doctors blocked.
These children are running out of time. But UNICEF teams on the ground are reaching them now, and with your support we can help save them. You can send the lifesaving food, safe water and essential medicines Palestinian children need today – before it’s too late.
With your support, UNICEF can reach children with safe water.
Children in Gaza are living in camps infested with disease and rats
The bombs are still falling on Gaza, and children are still sheltering in destroyed buildings crawling with cockroaches, flies and lice. Disease is spreading and worsening a hunger crises. At least 31,000 children face death from malnutrition – with Severe Acute Malnutrition cases rising 34% in a single month.
For those sick, weak or injured by bombs and bullets, medical care is hard to find. In hospitals that are barely functioning, medicines are running out. Children are catching deadly diseases that should be treatable – but stocks of medicine are too low to help.
Children like Massa are at great risk right now. She was bitten by a rat in her sleep, and without immediate help thousands of children like her will catch horrific diseases. Her mum Hind described the awful conditions: “The sewage constantly overflows. The toilets are filthy and full of germs. The clean water here isn’t enough to keep things sanitary.”
Your donation today can deliver the clean water that stands between a child and a preventable disease. It can send lifesaving food to children on the edge of starvation. It can restock hospitals with medicines that could mean the difference between life and death.
Please act now – children in Gaza cannot hold on much longer.
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Scared children in the West Bank and Gaza need your support.
Children in the West Bank are being forgotten
In the West Bank – a crisis the media has moved on from – children are facing escalating violence from settlers and military forces. Over the last year, at least one child has been killed every single week and over a thousands children have been forced from their homes this year.
In June, a seven-month-old baby boy was killed by Israeli forces. He hadn’t even had the chance to take his first steps when he was shot while sitting on his mum’s lap in the backseat of a car.
A few weeks before eight-year-old Ezzaldin was asleep when settlers attacked his village. He was beaten with a piece of wood. His mother had both her arms broken as she sought to protect her four-month-old baby.
UNICEF is in the West Bank now. Our teams are providing protection services, safe water and healthcare. When children are forced from their homes, our child protection teams are deployed within 24 to 48 hours. We help injured children receive medical treatment and psychological support, and help children arrested and detained by Israeli forces receive legal assistance. Last year alone we supported over 350,000 people in the West Bank with essential medical supplies.
But thousands of more children need immediate support – and we can’t reach them without your help.
The world has moved on from Palestine. But the fact you are reading this tells us you haven’t. With your support, UNICEF can reach children in Gaza and the West Bank and help save their lives. Please donate today – there is not a minute to lose.
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You can help send aid to children in Palestine.
The lifesaving response you can enable
Despite the bombs, the bullets and the violent attacks, UNICEF staff remain on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank. Our teams have been there for decades, working every day to reach children in urgent need with essential aid.
With many hospitals no longer fully functioning, and with the world’s attention elsewhere, this support is critical – and only possible with support from people like you who refuse to forget about Palestinian children.
It was people like you who last year enabled us to:
- Treat over 16,000 children for severe acute malnutrition in Gaza.
- Provide healthcare to over 350,000 people, including babies and children, in the West Bank.
- Provide 1.6 million people in Gaza and 500,000 people in the West Bank with safe, disease-free water.
But the need is still overwhelming – and growing.
If children are to survive this devastating crisis, this work must continue.
UNICEF is ready to keep going. But we cannot do it without your support.
Donate nowHow you can make a difference in Palestine right now
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€ 0can provide essential medicine for more than 15 children suffering from agonising injuries.
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€ 0can provide enough water purification tablets to ensure 20 families have safe, clean water for two months.
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€ 0can provide peanut paste to help treat 15 children for severe acute malnutrition, saving their lives.
Help save children in Palestine today
After years of war in Gaza and attacks in the West Bank, children are still at risk from a deadly cycle of hunger and disease.
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.