In October 2025, a ceasefire agreement came into effect, bringing hope to millions who have faced relentless suffering in Gaza.
Since 2023, the Palestine Red Crescent Society has had 1,400 responders active in Gaza and has processed more than 22,000 trucks of humanitarian aid.
But with aid access restricted, people have lived through immense pain, suffering and hunger.
In August 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, declared a famine in parts of Gaza, including Gaza City.
Throughout, the Palestine Red Crescent Society has continued to operate in Gaza, day in and day out.
Our Palestine Red Crescent Society colleagues are from the very communities they help. Despite the impossible conditions they’re living in, they continue to get up every day and do all they can to help their neighbours in need. Their continued work provides a small glimmer of hope to their communities in a very dark time.
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Is aid getting into Gaza?
While more aid is entering Gaza since the ceasefire, it falls far short of meeting the scale of humanitarian needs. The number of trucks entering needs to be significantly scaled up, ensuring adequate delivery of food, water, medical supplies, shelter materials and other essential aid items.
Recently, in coordination with Egyptian Red Crescent Society and other humanitarian agencies, the Palestine Red Crescent Society has received more non-food household items and basic items and has been able to distribute them to vulnerable people in Gaza.
The Egyptian Red Crescent Society is coordinating aid shipments going through the Karem Abu Salem crossing, collaborating with Egyptian authorities and international partners.
Despite constraints and challenges, they are ensuring aid reaches affected families and since November 2025 have been handling on average 400 trucks a day destined for Gaza via Karem Abu Salem.
The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is ready to significantly increase aid deliveries across borders and distribution within Gaza, led by the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Gaza, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society at the border with Egypt, and facilitated by the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC).
What’s the humanitarian situation like in Gaza?
In July 2025, the ICRC’s president Mirjana Spoljaric said: “Children are dying because they do not have enough to eat. Families are being forced to flee again and again in search of safety that does not exist. “This tragedy must end now – immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.
“Amid an ever-changing situation, the Palestine Red Crescent Society is working tirelessly on the ground to provide essential support. But with every piece of medical equipment that is broken, every hospital wall that is destroyed, every supply stock that is damaged, the chances of recovery for thousands in Gaza slips away.”
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