Despite ongoing community efforts and support, Gazans and Palestinians in Canada are faced with huge challenges: endemic poverty, discrimination, housing precarity, and all the traumas and complications associated with ongoing violence and dispossession.   

Settlement and community agencies across the country express significant frustration with a fractured service and support landscape, lack of capacity, insufficient resources, intermittent action, and isolation.

The GCP is a coalition of organizations reaching across the country to work past these frustrations, to come together and to share resources and support.