How is Muslim Aid getting aid into Gaza?

Muslim Aid has near 40 years of experience in delivering aid in volatile regions across the world. From natural disasters to war zones, our rapid response system carries out a needs assessment and delivers aid as quickly as possible. 

Our full-time staff in Gaza personally overseeing our work alongside our long-term trusted partners, Muslim Aid can ensure that our response to the crisis is timely and reflective of the needs of the Gazan community. 

Gaza urgently needs food, water and medical aid however due to the current escalation in violence and what is effectively a blockade of the Gaza strip, getting aid into Gaza has been severely disrupted.  

“There is a total blockage of aid access, banking restrictions, and funding into Gaza”, says Abu Akeem, Head of International Programmes at Muslim Aid. 

“However, we are in discussions with our partners inside Gaza to pre-finance agreed humanitarian interventions, while we urgently call for the immediate opening of humanitarian corridors.” 

“We are procuring from vendors inside Gaza to stockpile and distribute, and secondly, we are pre-procuring supplies outside Gaza in anticipation of humanitarian corridor opening soon”, he added. 

Long-term presence in Palestine 

Muslim Aid has been operating in Palestine since 2006 and has been carrying out both emergency and development work. We are currently working with our partners to safely stockpile humanitarian aid to prevent local communities from running out of aid. 

Muslim Aid has long-term contingency funds allocated to Gaza that our trusted partners can access under such difficult circumstances. 

Alongside emergency responses, Muslim Aid has worked with many vulnerable groups in Palestine, including educating and providing mental support services to children, empowering female-headed households and widows, renovated schools and homes and providing necessities that everyone should have a right to such as food and solar panelled water supplies. 

As Palestinians in Gaza continue to be bombarded, Muslim Aid is extending its prayers to all of those affected and would like to once again, stand with all civilians during this humanitarian crisis. 

Palestinians in Gaza are already deeply affected and traumatised by a siege that has been imposed on them for 16 years and its humanitarian implications. Living in a consistent state of conflict means 9 out of 10 children suffer from some form of a conflict related trauma and 65 percent of the enclave’s population lives below the poverty line. 

As the humanitarian situation rapidly declines in this latest round of conflict, Muslim Aid will continue amid this latest escalation in hostilities, Muslim Aid is committed to serving humanity and ensuring the survival of as many victims of war as possible. 

Muslim Aid is also calling on the international community to allow humanitarian corridors to open for life-saving humanitarian aid to enter the besieged enclave. The nearly two million trapped in Gaza should not be punished in times of political turmoil.