As media attention focuses on the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, we received this urgent message from the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) about a new round of misery in Gaza: winter rains and flooding. 

Please read the information below and consider a donation to MECA’s emergency Gaza relief efforts.  You can contribute via MRSCP’s MECA fundraising link or the winter relief links below; all funds (minus any online fee) go directly to MECA. Or if you prefer, mail a check marked “Gaza Winter Emergency” payable to MECA to:

Middle East Children’s Alliance
1101 8th Street, Suite 100
Berkeley, CA 94710

As always, thanks for your support.

Dear Friends, 

We want to share with you this urgent message from Wafaa, MECA’s Aid Coordinator in Gaza:

Right now, thousands of families are sinking into the flooded ground along the seashore, struggling to stay safe amidst the rising waters.

Their tents, bedding, clothes—everything they owned—are being washed away by the water.

It’s winter in Gaza and that means rain and wind.  For children living in tents or houses damaged by bombs, the cold weather is adding to their suffering and threatening their fragile health.

In the face of this devastation, MECA partners and our volunteers in Gaza are working tirelessly through the night to relocate 1,000 families to a temporary camp and provide families with hot meals, blankets and mattresses. But the sheer scale of the need is overwhelming. Please give now for hot meals, warm clothes, and other urgent needs.

Donate for Emergency Winter Relief in Gaza

We know we don’t have to tell you how much the children in Gaza are suffering. They are terrified, hungry, and traumatized.  Many are injured and have lost their parents or their entire families.

Israeli bombing forced them from their homes a long time ago. Now the tents they were living in are being destroyed, along with any small sense of safety they still had, by heavy rains.

Your support has provided food, clean water and other necessities to families in Gaza every day since the genocide began more than a year ago. Now, as people without homes are displaced again by brutal weather, please make any contribution you can to meet their urgent needs. 

Thank you for your compassion and your solidarity,
All of us at MECA

Middle East Children’s Alliance
1101 8th Street, Suite 100
Berkeley, CA 94710