Gaza Crisis Relief: Help Children in Urgent Need

Yes. A UN commission concluded, for the first time, that genocide is being committed in Gaza. 

Below is an excerpt from a statement from leaders of over 20 major aid agencies working in Gaza.

"What we are witnessing in Gaza is not only an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, but what the UN Commission of Inquiry has now concluded is a genocide. With this finding, the Commission joins a growing number of human rights organizations and leaders globally, and within Israel.

The inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable. As humanitarian leaders, we have borne direct witness to the horrifying deaths and suffering of the people of Gaza. Our warnings have gone unheeded and thousands more lives are still at stake."

Now, as the Israeli government has ordered the mass displacement of Gaza City – home to nearly one million people – we are on the precipice of an even deadlier period in Gaza’s story if action is not taken. Gaza has been deliberately made uninhabitable.

Read the full statement.

The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. Children are literally starving. Markets are empty, food is unavailable, and malnutrition is widespread — not only among children, but also among pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and the broader adult population.

As our Gaza Humanitarian Director, Rachael Cummings, described to journalist Jonathan Karl on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday, July 27:

“Every child in the health center today was malnourished, but also every adult was extremely thin, gaunt-looking, exhausted. The situation is absolutely terrible here.”

Save the Children teams are seeing a sharp rise in malnourished children at our clinics — and the numbers continue to grow.

Despite these incredibly challenging conditions, our teams are working tirelessly to deliver critical aid to children and families. We're reaching 26 communities daily with clean drinking water, screening and treating children for acute malnutrition, and supporting mothers with nutritional care — even as access remains dangerously restricted.

Only a definitive ceasefire can allow aid to reach children consistently and safely. A pause that can be lifted at any moment risks reimposing siege conditions that make starvation worse.

“So long as it is not definitive, any pause offers the people of Gaza a glimmer of hope just to replace it with further horrors.” – Ahmad Alhendawi

We have life-saving supplies ready in Jordan, the West Bank, and Egypt. But without guarantees of safety and access, we cannot reach the families who need them most.

Until then, we are doing everything in our power to reach families inside Gaza with services at our health clinics, malnutrition screening and treatment, and water trucking.

Malnutrition is preventable, and it is treatable. We know how to save children’s lives. But that requires sustained access to:

• Nutritious food
• Medical care
• Specialized supplements

Unfortunately, severe acute malnutrition is a life-threatening condition, in which children’s bodies are so malnourished they are experiencing wasting. With timely intervention, children’s bodies can stabilize. This requires medical care and fortified foods. Without quick and sufficient treatment, severe acute malnutrition can result in permanent developmental harm to a child and even death.

A few days of aid cannot undo months of starvation for 1 million children. They need sustained support at scale to recover and survive.

Our two primary health care centers in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis are providing critical maternal, newborn, and child care — screening children and mothers for malnutrition, offering nutritional support, and delivering essential medical services every day.

Here’s what we’re actively doing on the ground:

WATER, SHELTER, AND ESSENTIAL ITEMS

• Providing clean drinking water in 26 communities daily

HEALTH & NUTRITION

• Operating two primary healthcare centers
• Treating malnutrition and supporting mothers and newborns
• Running mother/baby areas for nutritional support

EDUCATION

• Running temporary learning spaces for children aged 3–12
• Supporting children who can no longer access formal schooling

"We will do everything we can to ensure the aid entering reaches and saves the lives of children and families. But a temporary pause is simply not enough.” 

The scale of suffering is staggering. According to Rachael Cummings:

“Mothers went from eating three meals a day to two, to one. Now, they’re not having a meal a day. And this is very, very concerning. And this is at scale.”

This isn’t a future threat — it’s the current reality for hundreds of thousands of families. Children are losing hope. One aid worker shared:

"Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food."

Your support can save lives. Donations help us:

• Deliver food and medical care to malnourished children
• Keep our clinics open and staff on the ground
• Mobilize emergency supplies already staged near Gaza
• Continue advocating for a permanent ceasefire and safe humanitarian access