In Gaza, famine is no longer a looming threat – it’s a devastating reality.

With more than two million people trapped under siege and aid deliveries at a near-standstill, starvation is now claiming lives by the day in Gaza. Blocked humanitarian access, skyrocketing prices, and the destruction of vital infrastructure have left families with nothing.

As the international community calls for urgent action, many are asking the same question: what can I do from here? While no individual effort can undo the scale of this crisis, collective action – through donating, organising, and pressuring governments – can help deliver lifesaving support and put necessary pressure on governments to act.

Here’s how you can help – right now.

Make a donation

The most important way to help save lives right now is through donations. If you're able to, support the cause financially by donating to on-the-ground aid groups like:

• Gaza Soup Kitchen: delivers meals to displaced families by using produce from the few functioning farms left in Northern Gaza.
• Dignity for Palestine: provides displaced Palestinians with essential supplies including food packages, clean drinking water, and medicine.
• Oxfam: collaborates with local organisations to deliver broad humanitarian aid and is raising funds to expand its support wherever possible.
• UNICEF Australia: provides children in Gaza with emergency nutrition like therapeutic food to treat severe malnutrition, clean water through purification tablets, vital vaccines, and mental health support – all delivered by teams working on the ground.
• Reviving Gaza: supplies war-affected communities with safe drinking water, cooked meals, and dry food packages, and also offers direct financial aid.
• Amal for Palestine: assists people in northern Gaza by delivering meals, water, essential items, and financial relief.
• The Sameer Project: currently unable to provide meals due to food shortages, but continues to distribute clean water, medical supplies, and tents to those in need.
• Gaza's Roots: a team of Palestinians in and out of Gaza feeding displaced families in most displacements centres and camps, from North through South. They run the Gaza Food Program, Gaza Housing Program and Newborn Care Program.

Write to your MP and tell them how you feel

Email your Member of Parliament and urge them to call for a ceasefire and the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid. You can find contacts for Senators and MPs and information on how to address them on the Parliament of Australia website.

You can also peruse this MP Engagement Toolkit put together by Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), which outlines:

• what Australia can do
• what to ask for
• writing prompts
• scripts for making a call.

Join a protest

Find an event near you to attend. The APAN website lists everything from peak hour protests to reading groups at State Libraries (for those less able to walk but still wanting to empower, educate and exercise their activism).