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UNRWA funding suspension: Joint letter by aid organisations

"As aid organisations, we are deeply concerned and outraged that some of the largest donors have united to suspend funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main aid provider

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UNRWA Funding Cuts: A Death Sentence for Palestinians in Gaza and Region

ActionAid, as an organisation currently providing relief and support in Gaza and the wider region, is deeply alarmed and concerned by the decision of some of the world's wealthiest nations to suspend

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As hunger reaches catastrophic levels in Gaza, people desperate for food resort to using animal feed as flour 

With every single one of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants now facing crisis or worse levels of hunger, some are so desperate for food that they are grinding up animal feed to use as flour. Famine is

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ActionAid's Response to ICJ's Ruling

ActionAid welcomes the Court's ruling affirming prima facie jurisdiction and indicating provisional measures, including the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to

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Essential aid including food and medical supplies prevented from entering Gaza, as 2.3 million people face starvation and disease 

Confusing and arbitrary rules about the type of aid permitted to enter Gaza is resulting in thousands of essential items being stopped at border crossings and prevented from reaching those who

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Women in Gaza resort to using scraps of tent in place of period products and go weeks without showering amid dire humanitarian conditions 

Women and girls in Gaza are resorting to unsafe ways of managing their periods amid a severe shortage of period products and catastrophic humanitarian conditions. ActionAid has heard that some

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After 100 days and more than 10,000 children killed, the people of Gaza ask 'Where is the world?’

This weekend marked a bleak milestone as the crisis in Gaza passed its 100th day. The level of death and destruction wrought in the territory over the last 14 weeks is unprecedented, with more than 24

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International Court of Justice case statement

ActionAid says: “With this crisis approaching 100 days, we remain appalled by the staggering loss of life and scale of destruction in Gaza. For the past four months, we have continually called for any

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"We are living in a situation we cannot call humane”: Hundreds of thousands of displaced people face catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Rafah 

"We are living in a situation we cannot call humane”: Hundreds of thousands of displaced people face catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Rafah  

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‘Most of our surgery is done under headlights. There is no electricity at all.’: Doctors at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza resume life-saving work   

Doctors at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza are once again delivering babies and saving lives against the odds amid incredibly challenging conditions after a siege of the facility ended.