GAZA'S CHILDREN ARE FACING THEIR FOURTH WINTER WITHOUT A HOME

After years of displacement, loss, and interrupted healthcare, the rain has brought yet another danger to children who have already endured far too much.

Infants exposed to the cold. Children sleeping in damp, overcrowded shelters. Families facing contaminated water, inadequate sanitation, and the growing risk of illness and infection.

For children recovering from surgery, living with disabilities, battling cancer, or requiring ongoing medical treatment, these conditions are especially dangerous. What begins as exposure to cold and contaminated water can quickly become a serious health emergency.

At PCRF, our teams have already been distributing essential humanitarian assistance across Gaza, and much more is on the way. Our ongoing response includes food, hygiene supplies, blankets, winter clothing, and other essential assistance for vulnerable children and families.

We have been preparing for the winter months, and our teams continue working to reach those most in need despite extraordinary challenges.

But we must also acknowledge a painful reality: blankets and warm clothing cannot replace safe shelter. No single humanitarian organization can meet needs of this magnitude.

Children urgently need adequate shelter, clean water, sanitation, essential medical care, and protection from the cold. Humanitarian supplies and assistance must be able to reach families at the scale and speed this crisis demands.

We join the call for urgent international action to ensure that displaced families have the protection and essential services they need.

No child who has already endured so much should have to face another threat to their life because the rain has begun.

PCRF will continue protecting children's health, supporting families, and providing essential humanitarian and medical assistance throughout this winter and beyond.

PALESTINIAN CHILDREN DESERVE MORE THAN SURVIVAL

They deserve safety, dignity, healthcare, and the opportunity to recover.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)