Category Archives: Press Release

Islamic Relief health workers in Sudan’s Darfur region are treating a massive increase in malnourished children as families flee horrific attacks on civilians. Survivors have told Islamic Relief shocking accounts of extreme violence and starvation.  At our clinic in Nertiti, in Central Darfur state, severe malnutrition cases among young children have almost trebled in recent [...]

Massacres of people trying to get food aid must not go without consequence. Three months since Israel tightened its total siege of Gaza, dozens of Palestinian children, babies and elderly people have starved to death and desperate parents are being shot and killed as they try to get food aid at new militarised distribution sites.  [...]

BAMAKO, May 16 — Mali is once again grappling with a worsening humanitarian crisis, as renewed violence in the northern and central regions triggers a new wave of displacement and suffering for thousands of civilians. In early May, intensified attacks by unidentified armed groups in Gossi and surrounding areas forced hundreds of families to flee [...]

Palestinians in Gaza are facing the gravest threat to their existence for decades, Islamic Relief says as the world marks Nakba Day. The Nakba, or “catastrophe”, refers to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 and is commemorated annually on 15 May.  The dispossession that began in 1948 is a process that [...]

Today’s new famine alert for Gaza shows how Israel has turned starvation into a weapon of war. Palestinians are not just starving; they are being systematically starved.   For more than 2 months Israel has completely banned all food, medicine and other vital supplies from entering Gaza, and destroyed people’s means of producing their own food.    [...]

Islamic Relief is ready to respond to increasing humanitarian needs as tensions rise between India and Pakistan. Any further military escalation is likely to have a devastating impact on huge numbers of civilians.   Dozens of people, including young children, have been killed and wounded in recent days by the biggest escalation the region has seen [...]