Middle East
Humanitarian
Appeal
Middle East
Humanitarian Appeal
Conflict in the Middle East is devastating lives. Millions of people across 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
2.1 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.
Over the past year, conflict in the Middle East has devastated lives across the region, and millions of people have fled their homes in search of safety.
Right now, millions of people across Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region are in urgent need of food, shelter and medical care.
In Gaza, people are dying of hunger and disease, as well as injuries caused by the conflict. Food and clean water are desperately scarce. Ninety percent of the population are displaced, and more than 42,000 people have been killed.
In Lebanon, more than a million people fled their homes after violence escalated in September. With a ceasefire now in place, they can start to try and rebuild their communities, lives and livelihoods. Many have lost everything.
DEC charities are ready to do more, and respond 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
UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN APPEAL
The DEC appeal has raised over £440 million and helped an estimated 8.2 million people affected by the conflict. This appeal will close for donations at the end of 2024 but donations will continue to be spent next year.
Social worker Yana (left) provides psychological support to people like Ivanna* (right) at a community centre in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, established by the local partner of DEC charity Christian Aid. Photo: Katya Moskalyuk/DEC
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal
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.
Abeer welcomes her baby girl born safely in a DEC-funded hospital supported by ActionAid in northwest Syria. Photo: Sonya Al Ali Maara/ActionAid
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
