About the Palestine Emergency Fund
Grassroots International’s Palestine Emergency Fund moves 100% of donations to trusted community-led organizations throughout Palestine, building on a 40-year legacy of partnering with local human rights defenders and providers of community-based emergency relief. The work of Grassroots International’s partners is born of unwavering commitment to self-determination, justice, and liberation. Since October 2023, their partners in Gaza have delivered food, water, and supplies to over 84,000 families and supported 30 mobile health care teams amid the total collapse of Gaza’s health system. They also continue the critical work of documenting genocide and war crimes by the Israeli government and seeking justice through international courts. These efforts include:
Distribution of food, water, and supplies: reaching displaced households with food, water, blankets, clothing, hygiene kits, and other essentials, as well as supporting farmers and fishers.
Medical care: deploying mobile health care teams that are providing emergency health services, life-saving medications, sexual and reproductive health care, mental health services, and more.
Specific attention to marginalized populations: organizing among women, children, and people with disabilities, among others, to ensure that their specific needs are met.
Ecological restoration: beginning to assess ecological impacts of the genocide, heal the land, promote access to clean water, and support life.
Movement infrastructure: rebuilding centers of community care and local organizing.
Human rights defense: carrying out formal documentation, communications, and legal work to hold the Israeli government accountable for human rights violations, from the local to the international levels.
