Gaza Diaries: Distributing Tarps in Gaza
Today I visited two distribution points in Khan Younis. MECA received 10,000 tarps from UNICEF which we are distributing across 10 of the camps where we have been providing drinking water for the past [...]
Gaza Diaries: Today I came to see what was left…
"The place where I’m standing now was once the site of a water desalination unit that MECA installed. It used to provide clean water to about 2,500 people every single day — before [...]
Gaza Diaries: We are still here, on the ground, working among the rubble
I write to you as I move through the shattered streets of Gaza—between work meetings and aid distribution points—searching within myself for my sweetest memories in this city. But my heart aches. I no longer [...]
Gaza Diaries: Tulip’s Story
By Eman Al-Astal On October 4th, at around 1:00 a.m., an Israeli airstrike bombed the home of Tulip, a ten-year-old Palestinian girl who was asleep in her family’s living room. Tulip was killed. Tulip [...]
Gaza Diaries: Every single minute, things grow worse. But we are still standing.
As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza City, we wanted to share with you a message from our colleague Wafaa El-Derawi who is leading MECA's emergency response in Gaza. As Wafaa notes, MECA is [...]
Gaza Diaries: Because Baba Named me Eman
When mama knew that she was pregnant with a girl, Baba wanted to name me Saba’a. For 9 months I was Saba’a, the first grandchild of my mom’s family, and the second-to-be-born in Gaza [...]
Famine in Gaza: A War Crime Robbing Children of Their Future
By Eman, MECA staff in Gaza There are 5 phases of declaring a situation of catastrophe/famine according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) and the Famine Review Committee (FRC), these phases are: [...]
Joint statement from 100+ organizations: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations [...]
Bread, Ovens, and Bakers in Gaza!
One in ten children in Gaza are now suffering from severe malnutrition. Everywhere in Gaza is close to famine. Israel is blocking nearly all aid trucks from entering Gaza and—along with the US [...]
Gaza Diaries: Israel killed Sham
We’ve been working on writing Sham’s story for weeks now, not knowing how to share it amongst the never-ending horrors caused by Israeli-manufactured genocide and famine against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. But we [...]