Gaza: Delivering clean water to displaced communities

Ibrahim is fifteen. He should be in school, worried about exams. Instead, he has to take care of his family.

He fled Gaza City in July with his family, seeking refuge in southern Gaza.

One year into the crisis, as bombardment continues from the air and land, people continue to suffer, and survive, in unimaginably difficult circumstances. 1.9 million people have fled their homes since October of last year. Ibrahim is just one of them.

Ibrahim wakes up at 6am every day to be first in line at the water station. He needs to get there early, to collect water for the twenty women in his family – grandmothers, mothers, sisters, and aunts.

He and his grandmother are living in a makeshift tent, made of sheets.

“Ibrahim is our support, our only man,” his grandmother explains. “We struggle a lot.”

Clean and safe water

With funding from the oPt Humanitarian Fund, Premiere Urgence International and Palestinian Agriculture Relief Committee (PARC) are working together to truck clean water to informal displacement sites, including the one where Ibrahim lives.

“I hope you can bring this water every day. Today I did not have to wait for long hours,” said Ibrahim. “Please continue supporting us – we need water to live.”

Since 7 October 2023, the occupied Palestinian Territories Humanitarian Fund has disbursed over $95 million to respond to urgent needs in Gaza, including through Palestinian and international organizations at the front lines of the response.

Published 6 October 2024

More information on the oPT Humanitarian Fund:
https://www.ochaopt.org/page/opt-humanitarian-fund
https://pfdata.unocha.org/

The oPt HF continues to raise funds to support partners via the public CrisisRelief campaign: Help the people of Gaza • (un.org)