Across Gaza, meeting basic needs is not guaranteed. People are living with constant uncertainty, yet even in these conditions, families are doing everything to rebuild daily life and hang onto hope wherever they can.
Since the start of 2026, more than 15,000 families have received support through All Hands & Hearts. This includes blankets, hygiene kits, fresh food, and critical nutrition aid, alongside tarps for shelter, jerrycans, kitchen sets, solar lamps, and first aid kits.
At the same time, we’re supporting clinics with critical medicines, helping the only operating animal shelter in Gaza (Sulala Animal Rescue) with food and veterinary supplies, and working with schools to create safe spaces where children can take part in recreational activities, helping support their emotional and psychosocial wellbeing.
Each effort responds to something immediate to help families navigate daily life in extremely difficult conditions.
Listening to What Families Need Most
Across Gaza, displaced families are struggling to access basic necessities like clean water, safe shelter, and cooking supplies. Ongoing aid distributions are helping families meet immediate needs while highlighting critical gaps. One of the most urgent challenges remains safe water storage. Without proper containers, even when water is available, storing it safely becomes difficult and increases health risks.
In response, our teams are delivering jerrycans alongside other essential items like tarps, blankets, and kitchen sets, helping families manage daily life in extremely challenging conditions.
Healthcare That Can’t Wait
Access to healthcare remains limited for many families across Gaza. Facilities are under strain, and essential resources are limited.
To support this, more than 2.3 million doses of essential medicines and medical supplies have been delivered, supporting emergency care, surgeries, chronic illness treatment, and mental health services.
Thousands of first aid kits and water purification tablets have also been distributed, helping families stay safe in difficult conditions. At the same time, nutrition programs are reaching around 200,000 people each month, supporting those most at risk of malnutrition.
Supporting Every Life: Animal Care in Gaza
In the middle of the crisis, care extends beyond people. Our team is supporting Sulala Animal Rescue, the only animal rescue shelter currently operating in Gaza.
The shelter provides medical treatment, protection, and daily care for dogs and cats, while also supporting animals in foster care. All Hands & Hearts is currently the only organization providing veterinary medicine to Sulala, helping ensure animals continue to receive critical care.
During a recent visit, the team witnessed firsthand the dedication of the staff, including the rescue of a newborn puppy found abandoned.
Creating Space for Children to Be Children
Children in Gaza are growing up in extremely difficult conditions, many living in displacement camps and attending classes in makeshift tents, surrounded by destruction. Their daily lives are shaped by disruption and uncertainty, where moments of normalcy are limited, but deeply needed.
Across different locations, our team has been organizing activities in schools and learning spaces, reaching hundreds of students. In the Rural Women’s Development School in Deir Al-Balah, children collected flowers, created artwork, and expressed themselves through coloring. At Al-Amal 4 School, a day of face painting, games, singing, and a clown performance brought together students and families from nearby camps, ending with small gifts for everyone.
In Al-Foad School in Nuseirat, students participated in a full day of fun activities, including drawing, coloring, and games (a much-needed break following a week of exams). On the same day, our team visited an educational point in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, where tarps previously provided helped reinforce the learning space. Children from nearby displacement camps regularly attend classes there, and actively participate in various educational and recreational activities facilitated by the team there.
These activities go beyond recreation. They provide children with a safe space to relieve stress, express emotions, and reconnect with a sense of normalcy. While they don’t change the broader situation, they offer something immediate and essential: a moment to simply be children.
Support Ongoing Gaza Humanitarian Aid
Your support makes all of this possible: from essential items reaching families, to medicine in clinics, to moments of relief for children, and care for animals
Thank you for standing with us in this great time of need.
