Fundraisers collecting for Palestinian civilians in Gaza are seeing a “catastrophic” drop-off in donations since the ceasefire was announced in October.
Donations collected by volunteers and funnelled to needy families living in temporary shelters and struggling with illness, hunger and malnutrition have been harder to raise since then, according to organisers, many of whom have been running volunteer initiatives for Palestinians in Gaza on third-party crowdfunding platforms over the past two years.
Megan Hall, based in Australia, runs 95 such mutual aid funds across social media accounts for individual families in Gaza, and has raised more than $200,000 (£152,700) since February 2024.
Hall said that although donations started slowing down in September, they declined significantly after the 10 October ceasefire came into effect. During the war, Hall said she was consistently able to send about $5,000 a week to people in Gaza. For the month of October, she said she raised just over $2,000 across all of her campaigns.
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