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Why Gaza? Following the eruption of violence in late 2023, Concern joined our partner to deliver crucial aid to displaced people in Gaza. A water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and food security project began in May 2024, with the aim of reaching as many people as possible in an extremely fragile context.

Displacement after displacement

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), roughly 90% of Gaza's population - numbering close to two million people - were forced to flee their homes when fighting broke out in October 2023, with thousands of people losing their lives and many thousands missing.

Livelihoods have been decimated, food systems have been crippled, more than 70% of crops have been destroyed, and health services - as well as hygiene services - have been brought to the brink of collapse.

Shelter has been monumentally difficult to come by for those who built their lives in Gaza, particularly during the worst of the shelling, with people forced to move location repeatedly since the current crisis erupted.

Latest achievements

One

Therapeutic food distribution

Our partner, with financial support from Concern, distributed ready-to-use therapeutic food to children at serious risk of malnutrition within 11 clinics in Gaza. As of February 2025, an estimated 1,200 children suffering from moderate or severe malnutrition received this food.

Two

Rehabilitation of water and sanitation facilities

Three

Hygiene promotion

A man carries water containers in Gaza
Mohammad takes containers to refill at a water distribution point in Gaza, 15th December 2025. Photo: Abood Al Sayd / DEC.
Ahmad, a water engineer with Concern's partner organisation CESVI
Ahmad, a water engineer with Concern's partner organisation CESVI, oversees a potable water distribution in Gaza, 16th December 2025. Photo: Abood Al Sayd / DEC.
Child on tricycle cycles through destroyed buildings in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians, taking refuge in Bureij Refugee Camp, start to return their houses after the announcement of ceasefire. Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images
Displaced Palestinians start to return their houses past damaged buildings
Displaced Palestinians start to return their houses past damaged buildings, after the announcement of ceasefire. Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images
Siham with his children
Siham is a father of seven children and is displaced from Tel Al-Tuffah. Photo: Khalil Adwan.

How we're supporting people in Gaza

In Gaza, our partners are on the ground providing vital humanitarian aid - with Concern's support - to those affected by the conflict.

Rapid Needs Assessments
Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food
Water Trucking
People gather with jerrycans and other containers to collect water from a tanker cistern in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip

Gaza Crisis Appeal

  • 1.6 million people at crisis levels of hunger

  • 1 in 8 people are facing food shortages

  • 70,000 people have been killed

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Our impact in 2024

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16.8 M

people reached through our emergency response

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5 M

people reached through our health interventions

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2.6 M

people reached through our livelihoods programmes

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