ActionAid has worked alongside Palestinian partner organizations in the occupied Palestinian territory since 2007. We partner with Palestinian organizations, most of which are led by women and young people, to deliver food, water, medical care, and shelter supplies across the Gaza Strip.
What is happening in Gaza right now?
A ceasefire agreement took effect in Gaza on October 10, 2025. It has not ended the killing. Between the ceasefire announcement and August 12, 2026, 1,259 Palestinians were killed and 4,148 injured, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Nearly the entire population of 2.1 million people remains concentrated in less than half of the Strip, in severely overcrowded conditions.
More than 73,400 Palestinians have been killed and more than 174,000 injured since October 7, 2023, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory concluded that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Rubbled remains of a communityin Gaza. Photo: ActionAid
What you see in the media shows only a small part of our suffering, of the tragedy of the life we are forced to live. We live in tents, and we wait in line at charity kitchens for food. We wait in queues for water, and we lived through a severe famine.
Nisreen Jouda, psychotherapist, Wefaq Association for Women and Child Care
Is there still famine in Gaza?
Famine was confirmed in Gaza Governorate in August 2025. Following the October 2025 ceasefire and expanded humanitarian and commercial access, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification found in December 2025 that no area of Gaza was classified as famine.
Conditions remain severe. Between mid-April and June 30, 2026, more than 1.2 million people, 59 percent of the population, faced Crisis-level acute food insecurity or worse. In early July 2026, 90 percent of people surveyed in Gaza were experiencing moderate to high water insecurity, up from 84 percent in June.
What challenges are families and children facing in Gaza?
73,400
Palestinians have been killed since October 7, 2023
174,000
people have been injured since October 2023
92%
of homes in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks
How is ActionAid responding in Gaza?
ActionAid works through Palestinian organizations that were rooted in their communities long before this crisis and will still be there after it. Partners include Wefaq Society for Women and Child Care, which runs services for women and girls who have survived gender-based violence, and Al-Awda Hospital, which provides maternity care in northern Gaza.
ActionAid Palestine and its partners work across the Gaza Strip: Rafah and Khan Younis in the south, Deir al Balah and An Nuseirat in the middle area, Gaza City, and Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya in the north.
What is ActionAid doing to help?
652,555
people have been reached directly with humanitarian relief in Gaza.
310,884
people have been reached through food distribution efforts.
74,888
people received water, sanitation, and hygiene services.
