1st, September 2026
ITF’s emergency response for Gaza 2026
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Humanitarian Response in Gaza: Providing Essential Support, Protection, and Education for Displaced Families
Amid the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, MHPC center with cooperation and donation from ITF ( Enhancing human security) continues to implement emergency interventions aimed at addressing the urgent needs of displaced families and supporting the well-being, health, and protection of vulnerable communities. Through the provision of safe drinking water, emergency shelter, clothing, hygiene supplies, recreational activities, and educational materials, these efforts seek to alleviate the hardships faced by displaced families and help children maintain a sense of stability and normalcy despite the challenging circumstances.
Providing Safe Drinking Water for Displaced Families
As part of its emergency response, MHPC delivered several truckloads of clean drinking water to displacement camps in the central Gaza Strip, benefiting approximately 800–850 people.
This intervention addressed the critical shortage of safe drinking water among displaced families, many of whom face limited access to reliable water sources. By delivering water directly to displacement locations, the activity helped improve access to this essential resource, with particular consideration for the needs of children, women, older people, and other vulnerable individuals.
The provision of clean water also supported basic hygiene practices and helped reduce the health risks associated with consuming unsafe or contaminated water, including waterborne diseases.
Distributing Tents, Clothing, and Hygiene Kits to Vulnerable Families
Recognizing the urgent need for safe shelter and essential household supplies, MHPC team distributed tents, clothing sets, and hygiene kits to vulnerable displaced families.
The tents provided temporary shelter and improved protection from harsh environmental conditions, while the clothing sets helped address the shortage of essential personal belongings among families who had been forced to leave their homes, often with little opportunity to take their possessions.
The hygiene kits were distributed to help families maintain basic personal hygiene amid shortages of essential supplies and challenging water and sanitation conditions in displacement areas. Together, these forms of assistance contributed to protecting health, preserving dignity, and helping families cope with the difficult realities of displacement.
Organizing Recreational Activities to Support Children's Psychosocial Well-Being
Children in Gaza continue to face significant emotional and psychological challenges resulting from displacement, destruction, loss, disrupted education, and prolonged exposure to violence and uncertainty. In displacement camps, opportunities to play, socialize, and experience aspects of a normal childhood have become increasingly limited.
In response, MHPC team conducted recreational activities for children living in displacement camps, providing opportunities for structured play, group interaction, creative expression, and positive engagement with their peers in a supportive environment.
These activities were designed to go beyond entertainment by offering children moments of emotional relief, encouraging social interaction, and helping them express themselves and rebuild positive relationships. Through shared play and group activities, children were given opportunities to experience joy, strengthen social connections, and temporarily step away from the pressures of their daily circumstances.
The activities also contributed to strengthening community cohesion within displacement camps and supporting children's resilience and emotional well-being during this exceptionally difficult period.
Providing Educational Materials to Students in Temporary Learning Spaces
The ongoing crisis has severely disrupted access to education across the Gaza Strip. Displacement, damage to educational facilities, interruptions to regular schooling, and the loss of school supplies have created significant barriers to children's continued learning.
To help address these challenges, MHPC provided educational materials to students in five temporary educational camps and learning spaces, supporting children in starting or continuing their education despite the difficult circumstances.
The distribution helped address the shortage of essential learning supplies among displaced students, many of whom had lost or left behind their school belongings during repeated displacement. By making basic educational materials available, the intervention supported children's participation in learning activities and helped maintain their connection to education.
Beyond meeting immediate educational needs, the activity contributed to restoring a degree of routine, stability, and normalcy in children's lives, reinforcing the importance of continued learning and access to educational opportunities during emergencies.
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12th, August 2025
ITF Emergency Response in Gaza
MHPC Launches a project in cooperation with ITF as an emergency response in Gaza
The funding of the project is provided through ITF by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
MHPC workers fill water for evacuees people living in tents in one of the camps in Deir al-Balah central of Gaza strip
According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, as of 15 January 2025, at least 46,006 Palestinians have been martyred and 109,378 are wounded since October 7, 2023. 59.1 percent of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. That toll represented 2.9 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population, “or approximately one in 35 inhabitants,”
The toll was only for deaths from traumatic injuries, so did not include deaths from a lack of healthcare or food, or the thousands of missing believed to be buried under rubble.
And up to 1.9 million people in Gaza are internally displaced, including people who have been displaced nine or 10 times or even 20. Previous estimates were 1.7 million, but this was before the operation in Rafah, and since May there have been additional displacements from Rafah and other parts across the Gaza Strip. And as many as 92 per cent of houses in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or damaged in Gaza, according to the United Nations (UN).
The strikes launched by Israeli Forces with aerial, land and maritime bombardment across the Gaza Strip resulted in civilian casualties, displacement and the destruction of residential structures and civilian infrastructure.
Amid only scant access to water and sanitation, communicable diseases and skin infections continue to rage across Gaza, highlighted WHO, UNICEF and UNRWA this week. Similarly, PCD warned that overcrowding of displaced people in areas that lack water, hygiene and a sewage system has already led to the spread of diseases, including skin diseases among children.
Mentioning all the above deteriorating and catastrophic conditions that the Gaza strip is experiencing for almost 15 months now, MHPC centre with support of ITF launches this project as an emergency intervention in trying to help people who are literally facing many different shapes of death alone, supporting them with all possible ways like providing evacuees people who live in tents in this cold winter with blankets, warm clothes, one of their daily main struggle to survive in cold weather. It has been reported that six infants and one adult have been killed by a severe cold.
In response to the deteriorating situation in the strip, the following activities have been implemented during the first phase of the project duration:
· Water Delivery to Evacuees in Tents – 17 truckloads of clean water delivered to displacement camps, benefiting around 1,000 people.
· Distribution of Tents, Blankets, and Warm Clothes – 130 tents, 130 blankets, and 130 clothing sets distributed.
· Provision of Infant Milk and Diapers – 200 newborns supplied with monthly packages of formula milk and diapers.
· Women’s Hygiene Kits Distribution – 60 women provided with hygiene kits containing soap, sanitary pads, and other essential items.
· Food Support (Bread, Flour, and Vegetables) – 125 families (approx. 700 people) received essential food items to reduce hunger.
Providing fresh water to displaced people
Displaced people standing in queues to get food parcels
Another water distribution in another refugee camp
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MHPC workers walking among tents to distribute hygiene parcels
Distributing hot fresh bread to some displaced children in one of the refugee camps
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