ActionAid to Support Distributing Hot Meals to Displaced Families in Gaza
For more than nine horrifying months, ActionAid’s partners in Gaza have been taking enormous risks every day to provide families in their communities with food parcels and hot meals and other response despite closures of borders and limited access to aid. ActionAid’s partner, MAAN Development center was able to distribute hot meals to displaced families in Deir Al- Balah /Middle area in Gaza.
This response is part of ActionAid’s emergency response to the needs of families across the Gaza Strip who are on the brink of famine. Our partners are on the ground are cooking fresh hot meals and distributing them to families facing hunger. However, more aid needs to urgently be allowed into Gaza, as a high risk of Famine persists across the whole Gaza Strip as long as conflict continues and humanitarian access is restricted. According to IPC report, About 96 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (2.15M people) face high levels of acute food insecurity through September 2024.
The IPC’s report notes that food situation has been deteriorating since Israeli military attacks on Rafah intensified in early May, and the current trajectory is both negative and highly unstable. Our colleagues and partners paint a dire picture of the situation across Gaza right now, with entire families forced to survive on a single can of tinned food, and pregnant women suffering miscarriages because they are so malnourished.
Already, the number of children dying from malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza is rising. If things continue as they are, more than a fifth of the population is expected to fall into the highest category of food insecurity any time between now and September – which means that starvation and death will increase. This is not inevitable: the report is clear that the risk of famine can be reduced, but only if a ceasefire and sustained humanitarian access to the whole of Gaza is secured. The world must wake up to the gravity and urgency of this crisis and demand a permanent and immediate ceasefire now – the alternative is unthinkable.
Background Information
ActionAid in Palestine (AAP) is a part of global federation working for social justice and gender equality and eradicate poverty in more than 45 countries around the world. AAP started its work in Palestine in 2007 to strengthen the resilience of Palestinian People as ActionAid believes that they should enjoy their rights to freedom, justice and self-determination. AAP implements a number of programs through its engagement with communities and women and youth groups seeking to empower them and enhance their influential civil and political participation to understand their rights and undertake collective activism to address the protracted rights violations resulting from the prolonged occupation of Palestine. AAP works simultaneously to enhance their leadership capacity and knowledge to practice their citizenship in holding authorities and other duty bearers to account.
For more information, please contact
Riham Jafari
Coordinator of Advocacy and Communication in Palestine
Mobile:
+972 (0) 595242890
Email: Riham.Jafari@actionaid.org