Middle East
Humanitarian
Appeal
Middle East
Humanitarian Appeal
Conflict in the Middle East has devastated lives. The ceasefires provide some relief, but millions in Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region urgently need shelter, food and basic supplies. Save lives. Donate now.
Aaliyah* holds her daughter on the remains of a damaged building in Gaza, October 2024. The mother of six built a temporary shelter opposite her demolished house and depends entirely on aid to feed her family. Photo: DEC/Arete/Abdallah Alsayed
The scale of need is overwhelming
1.8 million
people - almost the entire population of Gaza - do not have enough to eat
3 million
people displaced across Gaza and Lebanon urgently need humanitarian aid
Actors Riz Ahmed, Joe Alwyn and Ruth Negga join the call for urgent donations to help provide lifesaving aid in Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region.
DEC charities are providing lifesaving aid in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and Syria but urgently need more funds.
With ceasefires now in place in Gaza and Lebanon, DEC charities charities and their local partners are expanding their operations to reach people with food, shelter and medical support. Millions of people are in urgent need.
In Gaza, as many people return to their communities and face an uncertain future, DEC charities are working to support families on the move. Food and clean water remain desperately scarce. More than 47,000 people have been killed in the conflict. Many have lost everything.
In Lebanon, more than a million people fled their homes after violence escalated. People are now moving back to their communities, and DEC charities are supporting those returning and those who have nowhere to go.
DEC charities are responding across the region, wherever the needs are greatest. But they urgently need more funds.
How can you help?
You can help people affected by the crisis by making a donation and helping to raise money for the DEC appeal. This will allow DEC charities and their local partners to scale up their response and reach more people.
- £30 could provide blankets for six people to keep them warm
- £50 could provide emergency food, for five families for one week
- £100 could provide emergency shelter for five families
Two years on: Turkey-Syria Earthquake
DEC charities are using the £160 million donated by the UK public to help people recover from the earthquakes. This appeal is now closed but programmes continue to help people on the long road to recovery.
Güneş* with her mother Asi* at a DEC-funded Women and Children's Centre run by Oxfam KEDV in Hatay, Turkey, to support families living in prefabricated shelters after the earthquakes in February 2023. Image: Özge Sebzeci/Fairpicture/DEC
Recent DEC appeals
Emergency aid is delivered to people affected by the Turkey-Syria earthquake in February 2022, by the local partner of DEC charity British Red Cross. Image: Turkish Red Crescent
ABOUT THE DEC
The DEC brings together 15 leading aid charities to raise funds quickly and efficiently at times of crisis overseas. In these times of crisis, people in life-and-death situations need our help and our mission is to save, protect and rebuild lives through effective humanitarian response.
Pooling our resources to work as one, we are pivotal in co-ordinating the UK public's response to overseas disasters. In collaboration with our Rapid Response Network of national media and corporate partners, we raise the alarm to the UK public and set up easy ways for them to donate.
And we have immediate impact, getting aid to people who need it, fast.
Since our launch in 1963
78
appeals launched for major disasters overseas
£2.4 billion
raised, saving countless lives and rebuilding communities
