Children in Gaza and Lebanon are facing a crisis of terrifying proportions.
Too many children have already lost their lives, and many more are now at risk of dying from starvation. Humanitarian needs in Gaza and Lebanon are growing daily. Children are scared and witnessing horrors no child should have to see. Every day brings further death, suffering and devastation.
Our teams are working tirelessly with local partners to respond to the growing need for food, water, shelter and safety across the Middle East. With your donation we can reach more children and their families with life-saving assistance.
Children never start wars but suffer the most. Please donate to our Gaza and Lebanon Children’s Emergency Appeal now.
Help children in crisis now
The humanitarian emergency in Gaza and Lebanon is of unimaginable proportions. Help us reach children affected.
What is the situation?
What is the situation?
Lebanon
The conflict in Gaza has spread across national borders to Lebanon and is escalating by the day.
The past few days have seen airstrikes increasing in number and expanding across the country, killing hundreds of people, with many children losing their lives.
Thousands of families, including children, have fled for safety and are now displaced and living in fear. Humanitarian needs are growing daily – people are in desperate need of shelter, food, cash, psychosocial support and more.
Plan International Lebanon has been supporting children and families who have been impacted by the conflict since October 2023, and we are working urgently to provide mattresses, blankets and food, cash assistance and menstrual health supplies to displaced families, together with other life-saving assistance.
Gaza
The terrifying violence since 7 October 2023 across Gaza and Israel has left thousands of children killed, injured and abducted. Humanitarian needs within Gaza are at an all-time high.
Hunger is a constant and life-threatening reality for children and their families. They are dying of starvation. An entirely avoidable famine is imminent across Gaza.
More than 85% of the population in Gaza has been forcibly displaced and nearly all homes have been destroyed. There is almost no access to clean water and not a single medical facility in Gaza remains fully operational. People are quickly running out of food, water and medicine. Only a full ceasefire will enable the safe distribution of desperately needed supplies.
We are deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis unfolding across the region.
Plan International Statement
"Nothing can ever justify the killing or maiming of children. We condemn the catastrophic violence that is currently unfolding in Gaza and Israel in the strongest terms and call for an immediate and complete ceasefire by all parties involved."
Our response
Our humanitarian response teams based in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan have been working tirelessly to support children and their families with life-saving assistance. Your donation will support our teams to respond to the growing humanitarian need across the region.
We are supporting local partners to provide life-saving supplies and emergency assistance in Gaza. While Plan International does not directly operate within Gaza or the West Bank, we are working closely with humanitarian organisations to step up aid efforts to meet the mounting needs within Gaza.
In Egypt, we have been procuring food, hygiene kits and other items to send to Gaza.
In Lebanon, our team are responding to the rising number of internally displaced people, by distributing basic necessities like food, hygiene kits and blankets and mattresses.
We are ready to provide child protection expertise, mental health support and opportunities to learn.
So far, Plan International has helped to provide:
- 25,517 hot meals to people within Gaza
- 575 First Aid kits
- 1,200 dignity kits and period products
- Vital psychological support
What are we calling for?
What are we calling for?
- Plan International condemns violence in the strongest terms and calls for an immediate and complete ceasefire by all parties involved.
- We call upon all parties to follow international humanitarian law, ensuring civilians, especially children, are protected and to ensure safe, ongoing and unhindered humanitarian access. We call for the immediate release and return of hostages.
- It is critical that safe and unhindered humanitarian access is facilitated, so that life-saving aid can reach children and their families in urgent need. We urge world leaders including the UK Prime Minister to do all in their power to ensure the provision of essential and life-saving relief assistance, including food, water, fuel and medical supplies and care and access of humanitarian personnel into Gaza and Lebanon.
Any donations received that exceed what is needed for this emergency will be held in reserve to respond wherever the need is greatest. Thank you for your generosity.