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Oxfam continues to source aid and materials within Gaza in order to assist partner organizations, people displaced by the conflict, and those on the move and choosing to return to their homes. We are focusing on a range of emergency interventions including:

• Clean water for displaced people
• Access to food supplies
• Access to hygiene items, including menstrual products
• Rehabilitation of water and sanitation systems and wells
• Solid waste management
• Training and inputs for home gardens to help people grow vegetables
• Support for women’s rights organizations helping survivors of gender-based violence, and providing other essential services for women and girls affected by the conflict.

Since the beginning of the war in early October 2023, Oxfam has supported more than 20 local partners providing lifesaving assistance including food, clean water, repairing and installing sanitation systems, and hygiene support. Oxfam helps organizations in Gaza that are helping women and girls surviving sexual and psychological violence.

Oxfam colleagues and partners have worked under unimaginable conditions to deliver lifesaving aid in Gaza. Our teams have reached more than 800,000 people with water, sanitation, and hygiene support since the war began and have continued to provide protection services to the most vulnerable, especially women and children.

By working closely with our partners in Gaza, Oxfam has helped reach more than 1.53 million people overall with humanitarian assistance.

Aid for families in Gaza

Food

• In the early months of the conflict in Gaza, Oxfam worked closely with six partner organizations to procure and distribute ready-to-eat food parcels, which supported people in Rafah, Khan Younis and Deir el Balah areas of Gaza.
  
  
• Oxfam assisted farmers in Khan Younis and Deir el Balah with essential agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, water well and irrigation system repairs (pumps, piping, and other equipment). Partners are also distributing seedlings, tools, and other agricultural inputs to families so they can grow their own vegetables.
  
  
• Oxfam partners continue to assist displaced families with home-gardening support packages so they can grow their own food. Oxfam partners are also assisting small-garden vegetable producers in nine temporary displacements camps in Gaza.

Water, sanitation, hygiene

Beginning in October 2023, Oxfam and partners have delivered lifesaving water and sanitation services to 800,000 people.

• We supplied water by truck to people in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah, reaching 152,213 people.
  
  
• In July 2026, Oxfam partners supplied 5 million gallons of drinking water through five desalination plants in North Gaza, reaching approximately 116,662 people. We also delivered 367,595 gallons of drinking water by truck to 13 camps for displaced people in North Gaza, reaching 12,958 people. During this time, Oxfam partners also conducted 1,580 water quality tests at hundreds of water sites across northern Gaza.
  
  
• Oxfam partners are providing hygiene kits that include items such as soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, menstrual pads, toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Protection

Since 2023, Oxfam has supported efforts by our partners to provide psychosocial support to people in Gaza. This work has a specific focus on psychological first aid, and awareness-raising sessions for adolescent girls in Gaza.

Other protection work carried out by Oxfam partners includes:

• Identifying and registering unaccompanied and separated children in health facilities and shelters in Rafah. The children, especially those who were exposed to heightened safety risks, are referred to relevant services.
  
  
• Distributing assistive devices to people with disabilities.
  
  
• Oxfam and PEF distributed 12,775 female protection kits, including clothing (head scarfs and dresses), and personal hygiene and self-care items (deodorant, menstrual pads, baby wipes). The kits were distributed to the same people who received hygiene kits.
  

Oxfam and partners are continuing to provide access to counseling to survivors of violence, and training for service providers.

Advocating for peace in Gaza

Since the beginning of the recent conflict in Gaza in 2023, Oxfam called on all parties to the conflict and UN members to ensure unhindered access to vital aid in Gaza, negotiate a permanent ceasefire, and for the release of all remaining hostages and unlawfully detained prisoners.

The current ceasefire marks only the beginning. It must stop the killing and pave the way for the next phase: preparing the ground for a sustainable peace, genuine reconciliation, and an inclusive plan to rebuild Gaza. This process cannot succeed without justice and accountability at its core for all Palestinians and Israelis, to prevent impunity and ensure the cycle of violence is not repeated.

Oxfam is calling for:

• Full and unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza.
  
  
• The beginning of a sustained and principled effort that leads to ending Israel’s unlawful occupation and blockade.
  
  
• Palestinians to lead the rebuilding and governance of Gaza, shaping their own future across all occupied territory.

President Trump must do all in his administration’s power to ensure that the ceasefire is upheld by all parties, that all those who committed war crimes are investigated and prosecuted, and the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination is upheld.

Building Gaza Anew

Planning for Gaza’s reconstruction is already underway. New analysis from Oxfam partners MAS and Paltrade draws on legal obligations, best practices, and lessons learned from past reconstruction efforts to develop a principled framework for rights-based and Palestinian-led recovery. Their findings recommend consultation with survivors of the war, particularly women, people living with disabilities, and the organizations representing them in discussions about the future of Gaza.

Oxfam America is calling on the U.S. government to

• Protect civilians and ensure humanitarian access: Use U.S. leverage to secure unrestricted humanitarian access, protect civilians, prevent forced displacement, and uphold international law.
  
  
• Support accountable, community-led recovery: Back transparent reconstruction efforts led by Palestinians and supported by trusted humanitarian partners, and reject aid models that politicize assistance or put Palestinians at risk.
  
  
• Advance Palestinian rights, freedom, self-determination: Put Palestinian human rights at the center of reconstruction and recognize the State of Palestine.

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• Learn more: For updates on the situation, visit the UN OCHA website.
  
  
• How to help Gaza: Actions you can take to help Palestinians in Gaza recover from the conflict