In October 2023, after decades of blockades and recurring cycles of violence, new hostilities erupted across Gaza, unleashing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Almost the entire population was displaced, with infrastructure and essential services such as water, healthcare, and sanitation devastated.

Throughout 2025, Action Against Hunger continued to respond to rapidly evolving humanitarian needs in Gaza despite severe insecurity, operational constraints, and the loss of colleagues. Our teams implemented blanket supplementary feeding programmes and targeted supplementary feeding programmes supporting children under the age of 5 years and pregnant and lactating women with nutritional supplements, breastfeeding support spaces, and hygiene promotion.

Action Against Hunger’s teams daily supplied safe drinking water by truck, distributed water cans, and removed solid waste near displacement sites and damaged urban areas. In parallel, we supported community kitchens and hot meal distributions, helping families meet their most urgent needs while preserving dignity amid ongoing displacement and violence.

In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over 40,000 people were displaced by military incursions, with an additional 58,000 people at direct risk of forced transfer because of settler violence, military incursions, and home demolitions. Action Against Hunger was one of the main responders in the northern West Bank, delivering thousands of food parcels, hygiene kits, and bottled water to displaced families across Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, alongside dozens of mobile latrines, water storage tanks, electrical heaters, and stoves. Our teams responded to multiple demolitions, providing both short-term emergency support and longer-term material shelter for affected families.