Statement On Middle East Emergency - Othman Moqbel, CEO, Action For Humanity
Profound humanitarian strains that have been impacting families across the Middle East now risks spiralling even further. In light of this, Action For Humanity has decided to launch a Middle East Emergency Appeal. Across multiple countries, families are enduring escalating conflict, displacement, economic collapse, and the continued erosion of essential services. Civilians are experiencing acute shortages of food, safe water, medical care, and shelter - often with limited means to recover.
Recent regional escalation has resulted in missile and drone strikes affecting multiple countries, further destabilising already fragile environments. Several of these countries overlap directly with Action For Humanity’s operational footprint, increasing risks to vulnerable communities and complicating the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
Our position is clear and consistent: civilians must be protected. International humanitarian law must be respected. Hospitals, water systems, shelters, and civilian infrastructure must never be targeted. Humanitarian access must be safe, sustained, and unimpeded.
Action For Humanity operates across Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Jordan. In each of these contexts, we are witnessing a convergence of crisis, conflict layered upon economic hardship, displacement layered upon fragile public services.
In Lebanon, renewed escalation is compounding an already complex crisis marked by displacement and economic collapse.
In Palestine, the ability to get aid into Gaza has once again been dealt a huge blow whilst the destruction of homes, hospitals, and essential systems continues to place communities at severe risk.
In Syria, families returning to devastated towns require urgent support to rebuild homes, water systems, and livelihoods.
In Yemen, one of the world’s most severe hunger crises persists.
In Jordan and Iraq, displaced and refugee communities face mounting vulnerability amid regional instability.
Across all these contexts, our response remains humanitarian and impartial. We are delivering emergency food assistance, clean water, medical support, shelter, protection services, and early recovery programming designed not only to save lives, but to restore dignity.
In the last year alone, Action For Humanity supported 4 million people in 12 countries. That work continues today and is more needed than ever as the scale of need is increasing further.
The Middle East Emergency Appeal has been launched to enable immediate life-saving assistance, stabilise vulnerable communities, and support early recovery where possible. Our objective is simple: ensure families survive today and have the opportunity to rebuild tomorrow.
Human suffering transcends politics. The protection of life and dignity must remain the global priority. The international community, institutional donors, and individual supporters all have a role to play in ensuring that civilians are not left to face this crisis alone.
Action For Humanity stands ready, with field teams, local partnerships, and operational capacity, to respond wherever need is greatest. We urge collective action to protect civilians, safeguard humanitarian access, and uphold the principles that exist to protect humanity in times of crisis.