Justice and Human Rights Palestine Project #62187

Emergency Appeal for Gaza

by Amos Trust

Project Report | Aug 3, 2026
Gaza Appeal update from Amos Trust

By Katie Hagley | Head of Community Engagement

Thank you so much for your generous support of our Gaza Appeal. Your kindness and solidarity mean a great deal, and because of your support we are able to stand alongside our partners in Gaza as they continue to serve their communities under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.

We wanted to share a brief update on the situation in Gaza, together with some information about the work that Amos Trust is supporting on the ground.

Despite the so-called ceasefire, the situation in Gaza is still extremely difficult. Sixty per cent of Gaza is completely controlled by the Israeli military, and the Israeli Prime Minister has announced that the yellow demarcation line will be extended to cover 70% of Gaza. No Palestinians live in the Israeli-controlled areas, and no buildings remain there. Two million people have been forced into a tiny strip of coastal land, living in vermin-infested tents and partially demolished buildings with little or no access to water or sanitation. Building materials are still not allowed in. Food and water shortages remain widespread, Israeli forces continue to carry out daily attacks, and 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire.

At this time, one million children in Gaza are acutely traumatised. Ninety-three per cent of schools have been destroyed or badly damaged, and Gaza remains littered with unexploded ordnance. UNMAS estimates that more than 70,000 tonnes of explosives were dropped on Gaza—though other sources put the figure closer to 200,000 tonnes—and that 10–12% of these failed to explode.

Your support is helping to make the following work possible:
- Trauma therapy for children and parents, in partnership with our long-term partner DSPR, now that the situation is more stable and they are able to do deeper therapeutic work. Because the trauma in Gaza is ongoing rather than in the past, formal diagnoses of post-traumatic stress are not possible, but our partners are still able to help children and their mothers talk about the horror and loss they have experienced and find ways to begin to self-regulate.
- Education through three tent schools, providing basic literacy, numeracy and language skills for 180 children aged 5 to 8 each year, alongside a joint initiative with Taawon UK that combines tent schools with psychosocial support. The children involved in these programmes have either never been to school or have not attended since October 2023.
- Raising awareness among children across Gaza of the dangers of unexploded ordnance. We are supporting Ajyal Association in a one-year programme to teach 100,000 children how to recognise unexploded ordnance and booby traps, and to produce resources to raise awareness among 500,000 displaced people.
- Women’s health and breast screening at Al Ahli Hospital. Al Ahli Hospital provided essential trauma surgery and care throughout the war, despite being bombed eight times and suffering extensive damage. Now that the situation has stabilised, the hospital has asked us to support the resumption of its vital breast cancer screening and women’s health programme in Gaza City. No cancer care was available during the war, and there are still very few, if any, chemotherapy drugs available in Gaza. Al Ahli is screening as many women as possible and has a support worker who visits displaced communities, encouraging women to come for breast screening.
- Supporting the young writers who have become Gaza’s journalists. Since October 2023, no international media have been allowed into Gaza, and 260 journalists have been killed. The young writers trained by our long-term partner We Are Not Numbers have become Gaza’s journalists and continue to play a vital role in documenting the ongoing genocide.
These programmes are all delivered by local organisations whose staff have lived through the genocide, lost family members and colleagues, and been displaced multiple times themselves. Their courage, resilience and commitment are extraordinary, and it is a privilege to support them in this work.

Thank you once again for standing with the people of Gaza. Your compassion and generosity are making a real difference, enabling our partners to provide practical support, care and hope in the midst of immense hardship. We are deeply grateful for your continued solidarity.

Permalink

Apr 7, 2026
April 2026 update: Emergency Appeal for Gaza

By Karin Joseph | Head of International Programmes

Thank you for your donations to our appeal for Gaza. Please find below an update of just some of the work we have been doing in the last few months.

Since our December update, we have continued to work with our partner Ajyal on distributions of clothing, blankets and food, responding rapidly when the opportunities arose. 1,473 blankets were distributed as part of our winterisation programme, as well as winter clothing packs for 500 people in Gaza City. This past winter has been particularly harsh in the Gaza Strip so these distributions have provided a vital lifeline. We also supported a hot meals programme during February supporting families with 1,315 hot meals for families during Ramadan, feeding over 5,000 people.

Our partner DSPR has continued to support children and women to process their trauma and cope with the acute stress of life in the Gaza Strip. In the last 6 months, they have supported 2013 children with therapeutic group play, and 306 children have received a series of one-to-one support sessions. Parents shared that these sessions helped to reduce children’s fear, sleep better and interact more openly with their friends and family.

912 women have also received group support from DSPR’s highly trained team, with 261 receiving more intensive one-to-one therapy. Women shared that they were more able to cope with their caregiving responsibilities, felt less alone and were able to connect with others.

Through two initiatives, we are supporting 3 tent schools and 2 temporary learning spaces (TLS) in Gaza City and Central Gaza. Two tent schools were established last year as a rapid locally-led response to the urgent need for education for primary age children, some of whom have never been to school and have now missed out on nearly 3 years of education, while a third tent school in Gaza City has just been opened.

Al Ahli hospital has been able to restart its essential women’s health clinics which we are delighted to be supporting. They have restarted their breast cancer screening programme, which we have partnered with them on for many years, in addition to bone density scans for women. Osteoporosis already disproportionately affects women. Added to the chronic malnutrition during the genocide leading to widespread vitamin D deficiencies, women in Gaza are even more at risk.

We Are Not Numbers continue to publish stories from young journalists in Gaza and are currently recruiting for a new cohort of young Gazan writers to join their training programme. They aim for two cohorts of over 40 writers in each cohort this year.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Permalink

Dec 9, 2025
December Update - Emergency Appeal for Gaza

By Chris Rose | Director

UN Resolution 2803 was approved by the Security Council on November 17th. This established a loose and often ambiguous peace process for Gaza, quite unlike any previous Security Council resolution.

While the situation on the ground has improved since then, the dramatic improvement with the free flowing of aid into Gaza envisaged by the ceasefire has not been realised, and there has not been a marked improvement in the quality of life for the people in Gaza. The Ministry of Health reported on December 3rd, that since the ceasefire on November 17th, 360 Palestinians have been killed and 922 were injured, bringing total figures since October 2023 to 70,117 fatalities and 170,999 injuries, including 20,000 children. There are continued bombing raids on the west side of the ‘yellow line’ which cuts Gaza in half and marks Israeli control. This area has continued to expand and displace people, while Israel continues to blow up residential areas in those territories that it controls.

While there has been an improvement in healthcare provision and the creation of new health hubs in Gaza City there are still acute shortages.There are still shortages of food and plans to ‘winterise’ Gaza are at risk as so much of the housing stock has been destroyed (81% of all buildings have been destroyed or damaged - UNOCHA) and Israel’s ongoing refusal to allow most tents and even blankets to enter Gaza is exasperating a desperate situation.

Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International said on November 27th: “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal. But while Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”

Just before the ceasefire was announced, we provided assistance with the costs of relocating families from Gaza City with cash grants for 150 families who were forced to leave the city.

We have also provided food parcels for 500 families, 7,500 hot meals for children and young families, formula milk and maternal nutritional support for 1,000 women, complete winter clothing packs (coats, boots, night and day clothes, gloves, hats) for 600 children, and also 1,100 family blankets (the children’s clothing and blankets have been particularly hard to source, but are vital as winter approaches).

We have also provided support for a programme entitled She is Capable, providing bread ovens, training and start up packs to 25 women who are sole breadwinners for their family (family size at least 10 dependents/children), to establish microbakeries.

We are in the process of supporting the opening of a new tent school in Gaza to complement the tent schools that we have supported throughout 2025, and we have committed to supporting all of these for the current academic year (ends September 2026). We hope that some form of coordinated education provision will be able to resume then - however 93% of schools are destroyed or need major rehabilitation work.

UNICEF estimates that 1 million children in Gaza are acutely traumatised. We have been working with our partner DSPR to provide psychosocial care and play provision to children and their mothers throughout the conflict. This has been delivered from two locations in Gaza City and what is now their main site (a converted wedding venue) in Central Gaza. Their specialised team of trauma therapists and support workers are now finally able to resume their more in-depth work to address childhood trauma now that the limited ceasefire is holding.

There is an urgent need for further support, but also for Israel to allow all emergency supplies to enter freely, to stop bombing Gaza and to start to withdraw from the 50% of Gaza that is under their complete control.

Permalink

1 2 3 ›

About Project Reports

Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.