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Many of Gaza’s 2.1 million population have been displaced multiple times from makeshift shelters to sprawling tent settlements. But now, the winter rainy season has brought relentless downpours, harsh winds, and freezing temperatures. Tents are battered and torn, allowing rain to seep in and putting entire families, especially young children and the elderly, at risk of freezing to death. Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Nowhere is warm. "We have no mattress, no food, no clothes — nothing. We fled the airstrikes as we were,” said Adla, a woman fleeing North Gaza, where aid has been cut off for more than two months. “My family and I have been displaced more than 18 times. We are staying in a place that feels like a grave,” Riman, a mother clinging to hope for safety and stability, shared. Gaza’s beaches have been turned into makeshift refugee camps. With severe shortages of clean water, food, and safe shelter, families are surviving in desperately unsafe conditions — and they need immediate, sustained humanitarian support. The rain is spoiling already sparse food supplies, putting pregnant women experiencing crisis levels of hunger at imminent risk of starving to death. Women and girls are reporting more infections from not having access to menstrual products, clean clothing, or water to bathe — made worse by the combination of cold and hunger which make it that much harder for people to recover. Our teams are doing everything they can to deliver lifesaving aid to women and girls in Gaza, but with such much need, women and girls urgently need your continued support to survive.
We welcome the ceasefire agreement, the release of all hostages by Hamas, and the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian aid in Gaza. We are hopeful that peace will prevail and that the suffering of women, girls, and families will end. Thank you for not turning away from this crisis. — USA for UNFPA |
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