Dear friend,
Mercy Corps has been actively distributing food, hygiene and household shelter kits, working with local partners to get as much aid into Gaza as possible.
Recently in Amman, Jordan, Mercy Corps team members prepared 1,300 food kits for families in Gaza. The kits were then airlifted by a Jordanian Air Force cargo plane into Egypt, where they were loaded onto trucks bound for Gaza.
While these food kits are now providing relief to the families who receive them, it is just a small dent in the hunger and humanitarian catastrophe that continues to worsen by the day. More than 2 million people—half of whom are children—are stranded with nowhere safe to go, in a state of exhaustion, without food and clean water, and in the midst of near total destruction in the Gaza Strip.
We will not stop until Palestinians have the food and water they need to survive this crisis. Your gift today can help us reach families in Gaza, Lebanon, and around the world with urgent, lifesaving support.
Contents of the food kits that Mercy Corps team members are packing at a warehouse in Jordan.
Each food kit serves a family of four for a few days and includes items like dried fruits, olive oil, and fortified biscuits along with canned vegetables, beans, fish, and meat. All of the items in the kit are ready-to-eat, since cooking fuel is mostly unavailable or unaffordable.
Hundreds of empty boxes roll across a conveyor belt as team members hand-pack essential food items for Gazan families.
Mercy Corps and other humanitarian aid organizations are facing multiple challenges to getting the significant amount of aid needed into Gaza: border closures, limited approvals and onerous inspections, damaged roads and infrastructure, recurrent communications blackouts, and lack of capacity for safe and organized distribution.
We will persist in leveraging our voice, our partnerships, and our ingenuity to get aid to people suffering in Gaza. Send your support now to help families in crisis in Gaza and 40+ countries around the world.
Thank you,
The Mercy Corps Team
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