Humanitarian principles guide the delivery of the aid people need to the people who need it most, independent of political considerations.
LONDON/GENEVA, 25 May 2025 – Save the Children reiterates that it will not engage with any system of aid delivery in Gaza that fails to uphold humanitarian principles. Quote below from our COO Gabriella Waaijman.
“Save the Children reiterates its firm position that it will not engage with any system of aid delivery in Gaza that fails to uphold humanitarian principles following reports about engaging with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation over a new militarized proposal for aid delivery. We have not agreed to support or collaborate with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, nor we will support to limit the number of humanitarian actors in the Gaza response. We stand united with our peers in calling on the Government of Israel and the international community to let us do our jobs.
“Humanitarian principles guide the delivery of the aid people need to the people who need it most, independent of political considerations. Those principles are the difference between real humanitarian action and service delivery, and guide Save the Children's assistance to children and families across the world. We continue to stand with our principles, peers, and the children of Gaza, and will not engage with a system for aid delivery that does not do the same.
“Humanitarian organisations know how to deliver aid and have a principled system that works. New proposals for aid delivery that fail to uphold these standards are a distraction with devastating costs. After 11 weeks of total siege on the entry of all supplies into Gaza, thousands of children's lives hang in the balance. But instead of ensuring urgent principled humanitarian aid delivery at the vast scale needed to save them, the Government of Israel is wasting time on political interference with what must remain a humanitarian-led system. We reiterate our call to the Government of Israel and the international community to uphold humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law to ensure that people urgently receive the relief they need. Anything less is yet another world failure in what is becoming a long list for which the people of Gaza are paying with their lives.”
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