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Good Neighbors humanitarian response

HOPE FOR GAZA,
ACTION FOR CHANGE

Emergency Appeal
Every life saved counts.

Last Updated: 14 April 2024

What is the current situation in the Gaza Strip?

  • The ceasefire collapsed on 1 March and hostilities resumed on 18 March with a total blockade in effect since 2 March, displacing over 250,000 people, adding to the 1.9 million already displaced.
  • Over 1 million children urgently need mental health support, 1 in 3 under two is severely malnourished, 658,000 are out of school, and 17,000 have been separated from their families.
  • 92% of housing has been damaged or destroyed, 60% water is undrinkable, leaving families drinking contaminated water and forced to sleep in rubble or on the streets.
  • 1.95 million people face food insecurity (IPC Phase 3+), including 345,000 in catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) at imminent risk of famine, while soaring prices have made even basic survival unaffordable.
  • In overcrowded shelters, gender-based violence is rising, and all Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSS) have shut down.
  • A temporary ceasefire is in place, with over 500,000 people returning to the north since 27 January 2025.
  • Thousands, including children, are living in damaged homes with limited access to food, water, and medical care.
  • Over one million children need mental health support, and gender-based violence is increasing due to prolonged distress.
  • 91% of the population is at risk of severe food insecurity (IPC phase 3), and 436,000 housing units have been destroyed or severely/partially damaged.​

Good Neighbors Humanitarian Response

Child Protection

Life-saving
and urgent needs

Sustainable
Reconstruction

Good Neighbors initiated an emergency response in September 2024 in collaboration with local partners.
Our intervention strategy includes child protection promotion through mental health and psychosocial support,
the distribution of life-saving essentials such as hygiene kits and hot meals, and sustainable reconstruction support after the crisis.

Good Neighbors Humanitarian Response

Child Protection

Life-saving
and urgent needs

Sustainable
Reconstruction

Good Neighbors initiated an emergency response in 2024

 in collaboration with local partners.
Our intervention strategy includes 
child protection promotion through
mental health and psychosocial support, the distribution of life-saving essentials such as hygiene kits and hot meals, and sustainable reconstruction
support after the crisis.

"The message is clear: the children need us now more than ever."

During the ceasefire, we saw hope. We believed the war would end. But today, we are suffering even more than before. There is no food. No water. No safety. Our children have nowhere to go," says Aya, a Psychosocial Support (PSS) facilitator.

Not only serving as a Good Neighbors facilitator inside Gaza, Aya is also a sister who recently lost her brother to an airstrike. Her second brother lies severely injured, fighting for his life with limited medical care in a collapsing health system.

And yet, every day Aya chooses to show up.
Every time she leads an art session with children—every time she watches them draw their feelings, paint their dreams, or smile even for a moment, she feels something stronger than loss.

"The impact of the PSS activities is bigger than words. It makes me happy to see children happy. To see them express what they cannot say."

Our Actions and Engagements

Urgent: Immediate Action Needed

Food distribution

Enhance food security for vulnerable families by distributing meal parcels.

Mental health and psychosocial support

Enhance psychological resilience and emotional well-being among children through group therapy, art therapy, and structured recreational activities.

1,040

7,528

People with disabilities and internally 

displaced received hygiene kits

People received 

nutritious hot meals

450

80

Suhour meal parcels

to displaced households

Children participated in structured

psychosocial support sessions

1,040

People received hygiene kits

7,528

People received 

nutritious hot meals

Hygiene Kit distribution in temporary camp.
Hygiene Kit distribution in temporary camp.
Access to nutritious food for those in need
Access to nutritious food for those in need
Door-to-door distribution for a reach out.
Door-to-door distribution for a reach out.
Collaboration with local kitchens.
Collaboration with local kitchens.
Hot meal distribution in the temporary camp.
Hot meal distribution in the temporary camp.
Hygiene and dignity kits include soap, sanitary pads, body wash, towels, etc.
Hygiene and dignity kits include soap, sanitary pads, body wash, towels, etc.
Suhour meal parcels preparation
Suhour meal parcels preparation
Meal parcels distribution to those relocated from eastern to western Gaza.
Meal parcels distribution to those relocated from eastern to western Gaza.

Standing in Solidarity

Good Neighbors is committed to standing by the people in the Gaza Strip, advocating for their rights,
and supporting international efforts to prioritize the protection of human rights and the well-being of all those affected by this humanitarian catastrophe.

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