Emergency Appeal
For Gaza and the West Bank 

As people in Gaza make the 8km journey back to their homes in Gaza City, they go to meet family members from whom they have been separated for over a year to see if they can find the graves of loved ones or the remains of those buried under the rubble. 

92% of homes in Gaza City have been destroyed or badly damaged, and further north, in Jaballia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia — the devastation is even worse. 

“Yesterday, my wife’s uncle returned from Khan Younis to his bombed family house in Beit Lahia. He said, “I did not know where my house was because all the houses are now on top of each other”. If I went to Jabalia refugee camp now, I would not recognise the street where my grandfather’s home was.” Mosab Abu Toha — Palestinian poet, short-story writer and essayist from Gaza

Quote taken from a webinar with Mosab Abu Toha on the 28th January 2025

As soon as the news of the cease-fire was announced, Israel began a major offensive on Jenin and Tulkarem. They have locked down the whole of the West Bank, set up 898 new checkpoints and erected 173 iron gates to further cut off the entrances to the Palestinian towns and cities and prevent people’s movement.

Our Gaza Emergency Appeal is to fund:

1. Essential medical care
2. Vital food and humanitarian aid
3. Therapeutic trauma support for women and children
4. Young writers who are documenting a genocide.

1. Essential medical care 

Destruction: Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City after the bombing on 17th October 2023
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Al Ahli Hospital has been hit four times since 7th October 2023 — ten days later, the first strike killed 490 people. Despite this and massive shortages in staffing, medicines, anaesthetics, antibiotics, fuel, food and water, the hospital continues to open every day.

This small hospital is currently the only trauma hospital operating in Gaza City. It has 150 inpatients in a 60-bed unit and sees 700 of its 22,000 outpatients every day. They are now starting to be able to deliver rehabilitation and diagnostic services for the first time since the war began.

Staff sheltering in central Gaza have also been running a temporary health clinic for the one million people squeezed into this tiny strip of land.  

2. Vital food and humanitarian aid

Partnership: Food aid being delivered in Gaza funded by Amos Trust
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As food aid starts to enter Gaza, there are still shortages and significant distribution challenges. It is estimated that 135,000 tents will be needed for those returning to the north, and blankets are urgently needed.

We are working with MA’AN Development, the Welfare Association and the Gaza Sunbirds to distribute essential food and humanitarian supplies to those sheltering in central Gaza. We are working closely with MA’AN to provide blankets, clothes and hygiene packs to people returning to Gaza City. 

On the West Bank, we have been working with Holy Land Trust (HLT) and Alrowwad to provide food vouchers and hot meals to those without income since 7th October 2023. We are also supporting HIRN and HLT’s essential work with communities in Area C of the Bethlehem governorate and south Hebron hills and small creative initiatives struggling to survive.

3. Therapeutic trauma support for women and children

Support: A family health clinic run by Amos partner DSPR
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The entire population in Gaza is suffering from acute trauma
At the start of the war, DSPR (also known as NECC) had to close all their health, psychosocial support and training centres as they were in areas targeted by the Israeli assault. They opened a health and trauma support unit for women and children in Rafah that treated 28,000 people, and provided psychosocial support to 15,000 children, their families and bereaved mothers. 

Following the Israeli assault on Rafah, DSPR opened a mobile health clinic, providing treatment to 260 people a day. Later they converted a wedding hall in central Gaza into a new medical centre which also provides a base for their trauma support work with women and children. 

“We are not providing trauma therapy like we have done for the last 15 years in Gaza. It would be impossible, pointless until there is an end to the fighting. Instead we are helping parents and children cope — addressing their fear and anxiety and helping them get through another day.

If we do not do this now, we believe that when the war ends many of these children, even with the best therapeutic support, will never be able to overcome their trauma.” Nader Abu Amsha DSPR

In Gaza City, staff dug out equipment from their bombed-out health centres and used it to create temporary medical centres, from which they also offer trauma support to children.

In the next year Amos plans to work with DSPR to provide support to approximately 8,500 women and 35,000 children to help address their trauma and improve their mental health. 

4. Young writers who are documenting a genocide

Experiences: Supporting young writers in Gaza
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We are supporting our partners We Are Not Numbers so that they can fund the young writers from their programmes to write about their experiences in Gaza. This not only provides these young writers with vital income, but also documents the experiences of those living through a genocide. 

Thank you for your support.