Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
Nonstop bombardment and the complete blockade and siege of Gaza has resulted in a spiralling humanitarian crisis for Gazans who are running out of food, fuel, medicine, and water.
➡️ HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA - The Systematic & Deliberate Rights Abuses Against the People of Gaza
The October 10, 2025, ceasefire and the September 29, 2025, Trump-orchestrated peace plan have done little to ease the living conditions for Gazans. The paperwork and signatures mean nothing on the ground where 2.3 million people are facing high levels of food insecurity.
In August 2025, the IPC and the United Nations officially declared the hunger crisis to be entirely man-made. The Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in its genocidal campaign against the people of Palestine.
Despite the fanfare and with winter creeping in, people in Gaza still have no tents or other form of shelter, no access to drinkable water, no schools to educate their children, no workable land for crops, a decimated healthcare system, little chance of employment, and minimal access to humanitarian aid.
"The humanitarian situation in Gaza is a moral stain on us all" - António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Jump straight to our resources on the ➡️ Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
Explore our comprehensive guides on -
- Famine & Starvation in Gaza
- Gaza Blockade & Siege
- The Campaign to Destroy UNRWA
- Ethnic Cleansing Plans for Gaza & Genocide Complicity
- Medicide, Ecocide & Scholasticide in Gaza
- Western Media Complicity
How Bad is the Humanitarian Situation?
- With 90% of Gaza's population displaced, 1.5 million people have been left without a permanent and safe place to live. There is an urgent need for emergency shelter as winter approaches.
- Of Gaza's 36 hospitals, 30 have either been destroyed or forced to close due to attacks by the IDF.
- The leading causes of death now are not due to Israeli bombing campaigns but rather starvation, dehydration, and disease. Around 95% of people have been left with no access to clean water.
- Only 38% of the agreed-upon aid trucks have entered Gaza since the start of the ceasefire. Aid is entirely insufficient to meet even the lowest levels of food and pharmaceutical security.
- Around 90% of the working-age population in Gaza suffers from unemployment and has no income, leaving citizens entirely dependent on humanitarian aid.
- Satellite analysis reveals that less than 5% of agricultural land remains suitable for cultivation and that nearly half of the territory's trees have been razed.
- The cost to reconstruct Gaza to an acceptable level and make it safe for habitation is around $70 billion.
- There is no clear plan for the reconstruction of Gaza. Proposals are vague and insufficient, with no clear path for funding. There is a noticeable absence of interest from the EU, and a complete denial of responsibility from Israel.
- In contrast, the United States provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid every single year. The bombs and military equipment used to destroy Gaza were made in America.
- Data from satellites estimate that there is more than 60 million tonnes of debris waiting to be cleared in Gaza.
"We are watching a people entirely stripped of its human dignity. It should really shock our collective conscience." - Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the IRCR
The international community must no longer stand by and watch this gross negligence of basic human rights. Humanitarian needs do not stop even when a ceasefire is successful (which, in this case, it was not).
Peace plans, signatures, photo shoots, and glamourised media coverage mask the true horrors of life on the ground in Gaza.
We must fund Gaza's recovery, end impunity, and deliver on promises for sufficient aid, fuel, and medical supplies.
Author: Rachael Mellor, 16.12.25 licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
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- UCPM and EU humanitarian aid response to the situation in the Middle East DG ECHO Daily Map 02/05/2024 - European Commission 02.05.24 410948
- The Gaza Flotilla postpones its departure and denounces pressure from Israel - ARA 02.05.24 410810
- Gaza: More than 380,000 families receive food assistance from the UN - UN News Centre 01.05.24 410936
- In Gaza, UNRWA works to help residents who are impatiently awaiting the announcement of a ceasefire - UN News Centre 01.05.24 410942
- Gaza Child Amputees Struggle to Recover Amid Israeli Destruction of Health System - CD 01.05.24 414319
- DOD's Gaza Pier and the Maritime Corridor - Center for Strategic & International Studies 01.05.24 415175
- The impossible task of getting lifesaving supplies into Gaza - Israeli authorities block, delay, and restrict humanitarian aid and essential medical supplies - Médecins Sans … 410938
- Gaza: Injured children struggling to recover amid decimated health system after witnessing horrific scenes - Save the Children 01.05.24 410935
- Gaza: “Everywhere I looked, there was destruction,” says aid worker - UN News Centre 01.05.24 410943
- Humanitarian Needs and Response Update 22-28 April 2024 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 01.05.24 410933
- Gender and Health in the occupied Palestinian territory 2023 - Health Cluster 30.04.24 410958
- April 30 USCENTCOM, Royal Jordanian Air Force Conduct Humanitarian Airdrops into Gaza - USCENTCOM 30.04.24 410959
- Gaza: the “silent murders” of the war - Médecins Sans Frontières 30.04.24 410963
- Launching of the SAWASYA III joint programme in the State of Palestine: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP PAPP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality a… 410953
- UNRWA Situation Report No.105 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - UNRWA 30.04.24 410955
- Gaza Strip: Access Constraints on Humanitarian Aid (30 April 2024) - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 30.04.24 410961
- oPt Emergency Situation Update 28 (7 Oct 2023 - 20 Apr 2024 at 16:00) - World Health Organization 29.04.24 410964
- World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador, The Weeknd, to Help Provide 18 Million Loaves of Bread to Families in Gaza - World Food Programme 29.04.24 410966
- Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza But Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege - DN! 29.04.24 412126
- Children’s shoes left behind illustrate chaos of fleeing Khan Younis: UN humanitarians - UN News Centre 29.04.24 410968
- Palestine - Infographic, six months of activation, 16 Oct - 16 April 2024 - Logistics Cluster 29.04.24 410969
- Tweet: Alternatively, food and other supplies could enter Gaza - much more cheaply and efficiently - @lindseyhilsum 29.04.24 412736
- April 28 USCENTCOM, Royal Jordanian Air Force Conduct Humanitarian Airdrops into Gaza - USCENTCOM 28.04.24 410970
- UNRWA Situation Report No.104 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - UNRWA 26.04.24 409013
- Signing the war in Gaza: Overcoming deafness and displacement - UN News Centre 26.04.24 410975
- EU steps up humanitarian assistance for Palestinians - European Commission 26.04.24 409015
- Doctors of the World: Humanitarian Relief in Gaza - Médecins du Monde 26.04.24 409017
- Gaza: Heatwave brings new misery and disease risk to Rafah - UN News Centre 25.04.24 409092
- 200 days of War – Health Cluster Overview - Health Cluster 25.04.24 409010
- We have launched the SOS Gaza appeal: in Gaza, we support psychological help for children and call for a humanitarian ceasefire - People in Need 25.04.24 409022
- Sigrid Kaag: The recovery of the Gaza Strip is not just physical - UN News Centre 25.04.24 409011
- Livelihoods under attack in Gaza - American Near East Refugee Aid 25.04.24 409009
- U.S. Begins Construction on Temporary Pier to Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Gaza - U.S. DepartmentofDefense 25.04.24 409016
- UCPM and EU humanitarian aid response to the situation in the Middle East DG ECHO Daily Map 25/04/2024 - European Commission' 25.04.24 409012
- WFP welcomes U.S. announcement of substantial resources to tackle extraordinary levels of global humanitarian need - World Food Programme 25.04.24 416722
- April 25 USCENTCOM Conducts Humanitarian Airdrops into Gaza - USCENTCOM 25.04.24 409008
- Gaza: Aid workers find ghost town and children living amid rubble in Khan Younis - Save the Children 25.04.24 409023
- UNRWA Updated oPt Flash Appeal (April – December 2024) - UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 24.04.24 409019
- [Gaza Humanitarian Crisis] Singapore Red Cross Sends 3rd Tranche of Humanitarian Aid to Affected Communities - Singapore Red Cross 24.04.24 409020
- Gaza: Amidst Israel’s genocide, Palestinian civilians face an unparalleled health and environmental crisis - Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor 24.04.24 412799
- April 23 USCENTCOM, Royal Jordanian Air Force Conduct Humanitarian Airdrops into Gaza - USCENTCOM 24.04.24 409098
- IRC Welcomes Passage of US Humanitarian Aid, Supporting Communities on the Frontlines of Crisis in Gaza and Globally - International Rescue Committee 24.04.24 409018
- Gaza: Suffering unbearable loss, with no time to grieve - Norwegian Refugee Council 24.04.24 410982
- UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals - BBC 24.04.24 409790
- WFP Palestine Emergency Response External Situation Report No.18 (23 April 2024) - World Food Programme 23.04.24 409099
- The Government of Japan supports WFP food assistance operations in Gaza - World Food Programme 23.04.24 416723
- The Government of Japan supports WFP food assistance operations in Gaza - World Food Programme 23.04.24 409097
- UNRWA Situation Report No.103 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - UNRWA 23.04.24 409096
- UNRWA in ‘unprecedented crisis’, says chief - Al Jazeera 23.04.24 410997
- UNICEF State of Palestine Humanitarian Situation Report No. 23 (Escalation): 04-17 April 2024 - UN Children's Fund 22.04.24 409094
- ‘I am terrified of losing my daughter’ As people of Gaza face catastrophic hunger, ECHO’s support has enabled treatment of 1250 children suffering from severe acute malnutrit… 409095
- Israel Denies Responsibility for Blocking Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Strip - Misbar 22.04.24 409215
- Humanitarian Needs and Response Update | 16-22 April 2024 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 22.04.24 409100
- Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says - Guardian 22.04.24 411002
- April 21 USCENTCOM Conducts Humanitarian Airdrop into Gaza - USCENTCOM 21.04.24 409123
- Six Months of Violence and Siege for 2.3 Million Palestinians in Gaza - Oxfam 19.04.24 409124
- World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador, The Weeknd, to Help Provide 18 Million Loaves of Bread to Families in Gaza - World Food Programme 19.04.24 416721
- Regional Response to the Crisis in Occupied Palestinian Territory: Situation Report No.23 - 18 April 2024 - International Organization for Migration 19.04.24 409121
- UNRWA Situation Report No.102 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - UNRWA 19.04.24 409120
- Gaza: A family of volunteers, helping others while they themselves cope with the hard realities of conflict - International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies… 408105
- NGOs call on government to offer shelter to Palestinians: Representatives of several NGOs called on the government on Thursday to offer shelter in Slovenia to Palestinians in… 414063
- April 16 USCENTCOM Conducts Humanitarian Air Drop into Gaza - USCENTCOM 18.04.24 408103
- UN agency helping Palestinians in Gaza seeks support against Israel’s demands for its dissolution - AP 18.04.24 408759
- April 18 USCENTCOM Conducts Humanitarian Air Drop into Gaza - USCENTCOM 18.04.24 413404
- oPt Humanitarian Fund Annual Report 2023 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 17.04.24 408110
- Flash Appeal: Occupied Palestinian Territory, April - December 2024 (April 2024) - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 17.04.24 408108
- World Central Kitchen: How Western-vetted aid helps sanitise genocide in Gaza - The New Arab 17.04.24 413933
- Occupied Palestinian Territory Flash Appeal at a Glance, April - December 2024 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 17.04.24 408109
- Humanitarian Needs and Response Update, 9-15 April 2024 - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 17.04.24 408106
- Turkish Red Crescent: Palestine Humanitarian Aid Operation, 2024 - Turkish Red Crescent Society 17.04.24 408111
- Israel-Palestine: an insidious Israeli campaign prevents humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza - UN News Centre 17.04.24 408102
- Humanitarian and environmental impacts of the war in Gaza: Climate Effects - IPPNW Germany 17.04.24 460473
- Israel-Palestine: They ask for 2.8 billion dollars to help three million people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank - UN News Centre 17.04.24 408112
- Children disproportionately wearing the scars of the war in Gaza - Geneva Palais briefing note - UN Children's Fund 16.04.24 408130
- Gender alert: Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – Water, sa… 408132
- France and the UN join hands to strengthen maternal and neonatal health services in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank - World Health Organization 16.04.24 408133
- IRC emergency team warns: public health catastrophe underway in Gaza - International Rescue Committee 16.04.24 408107
- Gaza: Rights Experts Warn on Humanitarian Crisis - The Wire 16.04.24 408762
- Six months into the war on Gaza, over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned - UN Women 16.04.24 435389
- Yitzhak Rabin’s ‘break their legs’ strategy continues to haunt Gaza’s disabled - TRT World Research Centre 16.04.24 410830
- WFP Palestine Emergency Response External Situation Report No.17 (11 April 2024) - World Food Programme 16.04.24 408129
- UNRWA Situation Report No.101 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem - UNRWA 16.04.24 408131
- The Best Way to Deal With Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis - Foreign Affairs 15.04.24 408757
- Bombardements, raids and incursions: some of the attacks occurred against the sanitary system in the surrounding areas - Médecins Sans Frontières 15.04.24 413688
- Solidarity and faith - our community raised over $1M during Ramadan - American Near East Refugee Aid 15.04.24 408134
- What humanitarian aid items has Israel barred from entering Gaza? - The New Arab 15.04.24 408763
- Qatar Charity, strategic partner for conference on humanitarian situation in Gaza - Qatar Charity 13.04.24 413589
- Video: Red Cross: Do not normalise what is happening in Gaza - Al Jazeera 12.04.24 408760
- Gaza: no improvement in aid access to the north, says senior UN official - UN News Centre 12.04.24 408137
- April 11 USCENTCOM Conducts Humanitarian Airdrops into Gaza - USCENTCOM 11.04.24 407059
- As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza - CD 11.04.24 416235
- Statement From Anera’s President on Resuming Operations in Gaza - American Near East Refugee Aid 11.04.24 407058
- UCPM and EU humanitarian aid response to the situation in the Middle East, DG ECHO Daily Map 11/04/2024 - European Commission 11.04.24 407057
- Virtual Media Briefing: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza - CFR 11.04.24 408761
- Under the directives of the UAE President, the UAE supports the “Amalthea Fund” for humanitarian response in Gaza with USD 15 million - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)… 407060
- April 10 USCENTCOM Conducts Humanitarian Airdrops into Gaza - USCENTCOM 10.04.24 407056
- Gaza six months on: How your support for MAP has made a difference to Palestinians - Medical Aid for Palestinians 10.04.24 407077
- Analysis: Support for Refugees Erodes in the Middle East - Center for Strategic and International Studies 10.04.24 409367
- ‘This cannot be Eid’: Gaza’s survivors mark the end of Ramadan in the shadow of war - Guardian 10.04.24 406645
- Israel-Palestine: Israel continues to deny aid access to Gaza - UN News Centre 09.04.24 407071