Partnering with Clean Shelter to Bring Aid to Gazans

The New Israel Fund has, for more than 40 years, been singularly focused on supporting and advancing Israeli civil society. But more than two million people in Gaza, too many of them children, are currently cut off from food, water, and medical supplies and face a daily battle for survival in a world that too often fails to see them as fully human. 

We cannot close our eyes to what is happening in Gaza. We know we have a moral obligation to speak up and act when we see suffering. This is why the New Israel Fund has been raising funds to provide humanitarian aid to civilians suffering in Gaza. We are already working with World Central Kitchen, and this week, we added a new partner: Clean Shelter. 

Clean Shelter is a German-registered organization founded by two women, a Palestinian living in Munich and an Israeli living in Berlin. The organization provides immediate relief to displaced communities in Gaza by offering essential sanitation and shelter solutions. These include tents, toilets, community structures, and access to clean water. Clean Shelter also organizes and implements comprehensive infrastructure projects. For example, in Khan Younis they restored access to clean drinking water for approximately 120,000 residents across six neighborhoods. They entirely rehabilitated the Zomi Camp for internally displaced Gazans, and are now responsible for residents’ care and daily needs there. Clean Shelter has also rebuilt and now operates two desalination systems, enabling thousands of displaced families in southern Gaza to access clean drinking water. 

Among the many reasons NIF has singled out Clean Shelter as a good partner, they accomplish their goals by leveraging resources that are already available in Gaza—which often means repairing and recycling materials—for these infrastructure projects. This means that they are far less dependent on aid trucks entering the Strip than other organizations. Their on-the-ground team and local vendors are highly vetted so that Clean Shelter can support both immediate access to necessities as well as long-term infrastructure recovery for Gazans in need.

Here are just a few examples of Clean Shelter’s work and why we’re proud to support them:

Sanitation facilities

Internally displaced people camp in Al-Mawasi

Emergency water distribution

School repair

The New Israel Fund began raising funds for organizations providing humanitarian aid in early 2024. Since then, the NIF community has contributed more than $2 million—20% of which has come in just the last several weeks. We are so grateful to our NIF community for its compassion, courage, and belief in a better, more just world. 

If you’d like to make a donation to get humanitarian aid into Gaza, click here. 100% of your donation will go to on-the-ground aid groups.