Gaza
Washington Post: CARE’s Beckie Ryan interviewed about hunger in Gaza
On August 22, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) released a report that confirmed famine in Gaza City. Becky Ryan, CARE Response Director in Gaza, spoke to the Washington Post about the health conditions of women and children she met while in Gaza.
Read MoreCNN: Starvation in Gaza worsens
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued a stark warning at the end of July that the worst-case scenario of famine is now unfolding in the Gaza Strip. CNN interviewed Beckie Ryan, CARE Response Director in Gaza, on starvation at a CARE health clinic.
Read MoreNewsweek: Opinion piece by CARE’s Deepmala Mahla
CARE's Chief Humanitarian Officer Deepmala Mahla published an opinion piece on Newsweek where she discusses how armed conflict and violence fuel hunger and starvation. Everywhere I went, I encountered women and girls. Questions lingered in the air, unspoken but unmistakable: "Are we less than human? Is that why the world has turned away?"
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CARE statement on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution proposals
In response to news reports on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's (GHF) proposals for distribution of aid inside Gaza, CARE has publicly and privately shared our concerns regarding the food distribution hub mechanism outlined in the GHF proposal.
Read MoreLong-awaited Gaza ceasefire must end the bloodshed, ushers in hope for scaled up assistance
A temporary ceasefire will offer only temporary respite to Palestinians in Gaza. A massive and immediate increase in humanitarian aid and access is needed urgently to help them begin to recover from the immense loss and destruction that have engulfed their lives for 15 months.
Read MoreUPDATED 1/15/25: Gaza: Attack on a WFP warehouse kills staff member of CARE partner
UPDATED: January 15, 2025 – It is with deep sorrow that we share the news of the death of another partner staff member, Hana Abu Meiri, 37, who succumbed to her wounds yesterday after being seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike on a WFP-warehouse operated by our partner MA’AN Development Center on January 6.
Read MoreCARE statement on IPC report on hunger in Gaza
The hunger we are seeing across Gaza is shocking and unconscionable and in every respect it’s getting worse. Whether or not the existence of famine can be determined doesn’t matter – widespread death, child wasting, malnutrition, illness, and severe trauma – all immense and preventable forms of suffering that have been happening for the past year.
Read MoreIsraeli siege of northern Gaza: Hundreds of thousands endure catastrophic conditions
Thirteen days since the Israeli military issued mass forced displacement orders to various parts of northern Gaza, CARE’s partner Palestinian NGO Juzoor for Health and Social Development, has sadly lost two of their staff members just the past week, Dr. Ahmad Al-Najar, while he was performing his duties at a medical point in Al-Falouja, Jabalia on October 15, and midwife Ms. Laila Jneid, who was k
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