CO-506141 Emergency WASH Support in Gaza

About this project

The conflict in Gaza has triggered one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the region’s history. Since the escalation of hostilities, millions of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes and communities, leading to extreme overcrowding in undesignated shelters across the Gaza Strip. The undesigned shelters are mainly UNRWA-owned schools, however, since the beginning ofthe war and due to the scale of needs, there has been no clear management or maintenance of the buildings or support for the peoplesheltering inside them. These undesignated shelters, never designed to accommodate mass displacement, are now housing hundreds of displaced families under conditions that represent a grave threat to human dignity, public health, and life itself. Need assessment conducted across six shelters in Gaza city revealed deeply alarming conditions on the ground due to accumulation of solid waste and wastewater inside and around the building. The physical destruction or functional collapse of most public sanitation units serving these shelters, pushed families to construct private latrines within or immediately adjacent to the rooms they occupy. These emergency latrines are built without technical guidance, appropriate materials, or any connection to a managed drainage or sewage network. Wastewater from these units is discharged directly outside the shelter building, accumulating in open areas around inhabited buildings, presenting direct and immediate risks of human c…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty

Published by

Oxfam Novib · International NGO

Countries

Palestinian Territories

Sectors

Basic drinking water supply and basic sanitation

Published by Oxfam Novib to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 12 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27108436-A-07836-02:PS.

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