Gaza Crisis

Mercy-USA is delivering hot meals inside Gaza to families in the Rafah camp for internally displaced people. Our partner on the ground, the Agricultural & Environmental Development Society (AED) is cooking, packaging and distributing hot meals with bottled water to families every evening. 

Donate for hot meals today and know you’re providing urgent help for people who are enduring the worst nightmare imaginable.

According to The Associated Press on April 29, 2024 "Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, around two-thirds of them children and women. The war has driven around 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million from their homes, caused vast destruction in several towns and cities, and pushed northern Gaza to the brink of famine."

According to data at the time of publication from the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Health Organization and the Palestinian government, more than half of Gaza’s homes, 360,000 residential units, had been destroyed or severely damaged. 378 places of learning had been destroyed; only 14 of 35 hospitals were partially open and 122 ambulances had been destroyed or damaged. 11 bakeries were destroyed.

Mercy-USA has partnered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East for fifteen years providing support for education projects, healthcare and emergency relief. So far, we have supported emergency relief including healthcare for some of the 1.7 million displaced people in Gaza.

Open Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe and Further Loss of Innocent Lives