Alaa al-Dali from the Gaza Sunbirds makes history competing at the UCI World Championships in Zurich, becoming the first cyclist to represent Palestine at an international competition.

On 31st July, the international press freedom organisation, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), reported that at least 111 journalists and media workers had been killed in Gaza since the war began on 7th October 2024.

On 17th October, 2023, we received the devastating news of a strike on our partner, Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which tragically claimed hundreds of lives. Remarkably, the hospital reopened the next day to continue treating patients. Read our update on the current situation.

Our partner, NECC/DSPR Gaza, began providing post-traumatic psychotherapeutic support following the 2008 Gaza conflict to children (and their mothers) and young people involved in their youth training programme. Initially considered a temporary programme, they soon realised that in Gaza, trauma is an ongoing condition, leading to the continuous provision of their psychosocial support programmes since then.

Thanks to your generosity, we’re delivering food aid in Gaza. Since Israel imposed a food embargo on Gaza after the 7th October attack, we have been doing all we can to make sure that people sheltering from the Israeli attacks have been able to have food and water. Find out more.