Sunday, Jul 20, 2025
Dear Donors, Beneficiaries, and Community Partners,
Our Gaza GivingCart team must pause deliveries because the ongoing General Strike has shut down all the local markets in Gaza. Families in Gaza — who are starving and have nothing — are protesting the limited availability of food items and skyrocketing prices. They are also protesting continuing bombing and forced relocation, made all the more dangerous by theft on the street. They would rather starve than let this continue.
Usually a General Strike means a strike in which most workers in a country refuse to work until they are given higher pay. In Palestine, it means the complete closure of all businesses and services.
This is different. The situation is unbearable. There is nothing else they can do. The Arabic word Sumud summarizes what the General Strike in Gaza is all about: steadfastness, not giving up, not throwing away their dignity, holding on to one another, and determination to show their perseverance and integrity.
Already there’s some hope: our team in Gaza is hearing that the Gaza Transportation Union of Truck Drivers is promising to bring food aid into Gaza starting Wednesday, July 23, possibly as part of the European Union’s agreement.
It is up to all of us, everyone outside of Gaza, to take action now to save lives.Rebuilding Alliance is testing how to make safe individual air drops and arranging for press to visit Jordan to see the overflowing warehouses and get the food supplies moving. But there is more we all can do.
Please contact Congress and your local elected officials to urge them to call the Israeli Embassy on your behalf to press to
- Reopen the Jordanian and Egyptian Humanitarian corridors to Gaza
- Let the UN agencies bring in food and assure safe transit to warehouses
- Reopen the community kitchens
- Get food in now, allow a humanitarian air corridor so the Royal Jordanian AirForce can drop energy bars and bread, safely rotating to the ground like maple seeds falling
Gaza GivingCart will resume food delivery as soon as the local markets open and it is safe enough to deliver. Thank you for taking action at this critical time.
Sincerely,
Donna Baranski-Walker
Founder and Executive Director, Rebuilding Alliance
