A UN commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Ruth James, Oxfam's regional humanitarian co-ordinator, reacts to today’s news from Deir al-Balah.

Press Release: Stars shine spotlight on "clothes that can change the world" in Oxfam's London Fashion Week catwalk Full press release here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/xd9tuu/

REACTION: Oxfam response to Trump-Putin Alaska summit on Ukraine ceasefire Full reaction here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/ybyoc3/

Famine on the Gaza Strip: ‘We See Children So Weak and Hungry They Cannot Even Cry’ Oxfam spokesperson details heartbreaking reality of life on the ground in Gaza amid on-going aid distribution scandal bylinetimes.com/2025/08/15/g...

PRESS RELEASE: Gaza: Israel threatens to ban major aid organisations as starvation deepens Oxfam and over 100 other organisations call for an end to Israel’s weaponization of aid www.oxfam.org.uk/mc/c36vao/

REACTION: Oxfam response to the ICJ advisory opinion on countries' climate change obligations Full reaction here: www.oxfam.org.uk/mc/2io7f7/

🚨REACTION: Oxfam calls for an immediate and independent international investigation into reports of Russia's use of chemical weapons in #Ukraine. Read our full reaction👉 oxf.am/407hWhb www.reuters.com/world/europe...

DIARY: Oxfam's media calendar with stories & reports for July and August 2025. Please get in touch with the relevant contact if you’d like more information or contact the duty press officer on:☎️+44 7748 761 999 (calls, no texts) or 📨[email protected] oxfam.org.uk/media/media-...

REACTION: The #FFD4 showed the challenges remaining to meet the Sustainable Development Goals - but also the power of international cooperation. 👉 oxf.am/ffd-reaction

REACTION: Oxfam welcomes Brazil, Spain and South Africa’s new coalition to tax the super-rich, launched today at #FFD4. Tackling extreme inequality is vital to fund development goals. Now other countries must follow their lead. 👉 oxf.am/tax-rich-ffd

PRESS BRIEFING: Today at 2pm, humanitarian & human rights orgs will brief press on impact of deadly GHF aid scheme which has forced thousands of starving people into militarized zones where they face gunfire while trying to access lifesaving supplies. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

REACTION: Oxfam’s @halimabegum.bsky.social says the High Court judgement on UK arms to Israel is "deeply disappointing" while the Government continues to prioritise the supply chains of fighter jets over the lives of Palestinians: oxfam.org.uk/mc/vvuq2x/

Rare collection of books by renowned philosopher Sir Karl Popper has fetched £13,000 for Oxfam, after being donated to one of the charity's shops www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scotland missing out on millions in private jet taxes. New research from @oxfamscotland.bsky.social "Oxfam says that if an Air Departure Tax had been in place, and applied at the highest possible rate, that would have generated an extra £29m in tax revenue" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports in @theguardian.com today: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

PRESS RELEASE: New wealth of top 1% surges by over $33.9 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over. Meanwhile wealthy governments are making the largest cuts to life-saving development aid since records began. Read more 👉https://oxfam.org.uk/mc/drjj9v/

REACTION: Oxfam response to the Climate Change Committee's Progress Report 2025 Full reaction 👉: oxfam.org.uk/mc/upryb2/

“Fairer taxes on polluting industries around the world could help avoid more deaths - providing immediate and significant support to climate-vulnerable countries and finally incentivise investment in a fast, fair transition to renewables.” Chiara Liguori, Oxfam GB www.theguardian.com/environment/...

PRESS RELEASE: Global survey from Oxfam and Greenpeace finds 81% of people support polluter taxes on fossil fuel companies 👉https://oxfam.org.uk/mc/d9ohgb/

DIARY: Oxfam's media calendar with stories & reports for June and July 2025. Please get in touch with the relevant contact if you’d like more information or contact the duty press officer on:☎️+44 7748 761 999 (calls, no texts) /📷[email protected] www.oxfam.org.uk/media/media-...

REACTION: Oxfam response to the Government's Spending Review Full reaction here: www.oxfam.org.uk/mc/sw7yvw/

PRESS RELEASE: Biggest-ever aid cut by G7 countries a death sentence for millions of people - Oxfam Read here➡️ www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

'We fell in love volunteering at our local Oxfam' #VolunteersWeek www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PRESS RELEASE: New survey finds nearly half of Gen Z are lonely, as Oxfam encourages people to volunteer #VolunteersWeek Read in full here➡️ www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

📽️ WATCH: This map visualizes #Gaza’s systematic erasure. Since breaking the ceasefire, Israel issued nearly one displacement order every two days, strangling people into isolated areas covering less than 20 percent of the Gaza Strip. Find out more: oxf.am/3Hbshlz

"Humanitarian aid is not just a food box that you slap humanitarian on and you call it humanitarian aid," said Oxfam's Bushra Khalidi. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Charity shop donated guitars fetch £12,000 at auction www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Generous donation of famous guitars from mysterious donor to Oxfam Witney shop sells for more than £12k at auction" www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/generou...

PRESS RELEASE: Generous donation of famous guitars from mysterious donor to Oxfam shop sells for over £12k at auction In full here ➡️ www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

A group of more than 80 civil society organisations, including Oxfam, has written to the prime minister to point out that taxing fossil fuel interests could pay for current climate finance pledges many times over, via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

REACTION: In response to the UK Government's joint statements on Gaza, @Halima_Begum says they are welcome, while Gaza faces a desperate situation, with Israel still blocking all but a trickle of aid: oxfam.org.uk/mc/6khbyz/

Oxfam's Clémence Lagourdat tells @TimesRadio that many people in Gaza are eating less than a meal a day "The people that are the most vulnerable in the Gaza Strip are actually having trouble to survive."

REACTION: Oxfam response to the end of this week’s High Court proceedings brought by Al-Haq and GLAN against the UK Government for its continued licensing of some arms sales to Israel, in which the court recognised Oxfam as an intervener. Full reaction: oxfam.org.uk/mc/tq2mjb/

Oxfam’s Clemence Lagouardat has just retuned from Gaza and told @skynewsrss.bsky.social she wasn’t sure if she’d see her colleagues in Gaza again as nowhere there is safe. Watch from 2:37:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDwW...

REACTION: Oxfam response to the #Gaza #IPC hunger figures Full reaction: oxfam.org.uk/mc/7jd7jg/

PRESS BRIEFING: Ahead of UK arms to Israel case at High Court next week, legal experts, human rights and humanitarian NGOs who have been involved in the case brought against the government are convening an on-the-record briefing tomorrow. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"We are facing a catastrophic humanitarian situation... Gaza, again, is on the brink of famine." Aid worker Mahmoud Alsaqqa tells Jackie Long "families cannot barely manage to have a meal a day". Read and watch here:

DIARY: Oxfam's media calendar with stories & reports for May and June 2025. Please get in touch with the relevant contact if you’d like more information or contact the duty press officer on:☎️+44 7748 761 999 (calls, no texts) /📩[email protected] ➡️https://oxfam.org.uk/media/media-calendar/

🚨 @oxfamgb.bsky.social's campaign on UK taxation on luxury travel has been shortllisted for an award! Watch the film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_M0...

As Gaza enters the eighth week of an Israel-imposed siege, blocking aid, vital supplies and commercial goods, Oxfam staff are describing conditions as the “stuff of nightmares”, with Israel’s mass forced displacement orders spreading terror. More: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... #OpenUpGaza

70% of the #Gaza Strip is under displacement orders or no go zones, affecting more than 500,000 people, and pushing many into inhospitable, unsafe and inaccessible areas. - @oxfaminternational.bsky.social uk.news.yahoo.com/aid-workers-...

PRESS RELEASE: Aid workers describe Gaza as “stuff of nightmares” as Israel’s mass forced displacements cause carnage and despair. Oxfam says restrictions on movement and total siege making aid operations almost impossible. Read more: oxfam.org.uk/mc/4mjy3t/

BREAKING: New figures from OECD show a drop in global aid in 2024. Before the aid cuts, rich countries had begun to renege on their moral obligations to the world’s most vulnerable communities. We must not turn our backs on people facing poverty. Stop the cuts. Tax the super-rich: bit.ly/4l1LZQ6

REACTION: Oxfam response to OECD global aid statistics for 2024 Full reaction here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/kisruf/

"Starvation, displacement and a war that does not appear to be ending." @oxfamgb.bsky.social's CEO @halimabegum.bsky.social tells @lbc.co.uk why the Government's new aid funding for #Sudan is welcome, but not enough.

PRESS RELEASE: #Sudan: Two years into the conflict, the world's largest #humanitarian crisis threatens regional stability. Release and report in full ➡️ oxfam.org.uk/mc/w6oq5k/

Thank you! The Myanmar Earthquake Appeal has so far raised over £16 million. Survivors of the earthquake are already receiving urgent support: safe water, food, mosquito nets, medical aid and more. You can help them do more. Please donate now. donation.dec.org.uk/myanmar-eart...

“We are basically on the brink of famine, if the blockade doesn’t end” Clémence Lagouardat, Oxfam in Gaza on #r4Today, highlights Israel's month-long illegal blockade of Gaza, depriving over 2 million people of aid, water, food and electricity. Israel must lift the blockade and allow aid into Gaza.

“The UK Government’s refusal to suspend all arms sales to Israel makes it an active ally to atrocities in Gaza." - Head of @oxfamscotland.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/news/2508042...

"Two-thirds of newly created global wealth has gone to the top 1% since 2020, according to Oxfam, while 62% of the world’s population survives on less than $10 a day" time.com/7275422/sust...