How is aid getting into Gaza?

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Last updated 23 October 2025

A ceasefire agreement came into effect on 10 October 2025 bringing hope to millions who have faced relentless suffering in Gaza. We hope that this moment will allow for an unimpeded flow of aid into Gaza. 

Since 2023, the Palestine Red Crescent Society has distributed more than 1.6 million emergency relief items and processed more than 22,000 trucks of humanitarian aid.

But with aid access restricted, people have lived through immense pain, suffering and hunger. 

On 25 August 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, declared a famine in parts of Gaza, including Gaza City. Food supplies are virtually gone and starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a sharp rise in hunger-related deaths.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has continued to operate in Gaza, day in and day out.

Our Palestine Red Crescent Society colleagues are from the very communities they help. Despite the impossible conditions they’re living in, they continue to get up every day and do all they can to help their neighbours in need. Their continued work provides a small glimmer of hope to their communities in a very dark time.

 

Is aid getting into Gaza?

Following the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society confirmed on 12 October that 400 trucks carrying more than 9,000 tonnes of aid had crossed the border into Gaza. This includes flour, fresh bread, baby milk, tents, medical supplies and medicines.

The Jordan National Red Crescent Society also has a full warehouse and is ready to deliver aid into Gaza when conditions allow. Five trucks of aid from the Turkish Red Crescent also crossed the border into Gaza.

The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is ready to significantly increase aid deliveries across borders and distribution within Gaza, led by the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Gaza, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society at the border with Egypt, and facilitated by the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC). 

  

What’s the humanitarian situation like in Gaza?

In July 2025, the ICRC’s president Mirjana Spoljaric said: “Every minute without a ceasefire risks civilian lives.

“People are being relentlessly killed in hostilities and while attempting to get food. Children are dying because they do not have enough to eat. Families are being forced to flee again and again in search of safety that does not exist. 

“This tragedy must end now – immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.

“Amid an ever-changing situation, the Palestine Red Crescent Society is working tirelessly on the ground to provide essential support.  But with every piece of medical equipment that is broken, every hospital wall that is destroyed, every supply stock that is damaged, the chances of recovery for thousands in Gaza slips away.”