By Caritas Jerusalem Caritas Jerusalem has donated an intensive care unit ambulance to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.
Entries Tagged as ‘Gaza crisis’
November 27, 2009
Palestinian solidarity day
In 1977, the General Assembly called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. On that day, in 1947, the Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine. As part of the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on [...]
April 1, 2009
Rabbis, imams and priests together in Gaza
For the first time in many years, a group of rabbis entered Gaza. The event was all the more noteworthy because they were accompanied by imams and priests. The three religious groups were part of a “convoy for peace” aimed at creating a bridge between the three religions and delivering hygiene kits offered by Caritas. [...]
March 1, 2009
A psychological ghost created by war
By Caritas Jerusalem staff Al-Salatin, North of Gaza District The civilian population of Gaza has suffered immeasurably as a result of the recent Israeli attacks, yet the psychological affects of war have been most severe on Palestinian children. “I have nightmares every night. Any noise I hear wakes me up,” says 9-year-old Fadya Al-Sultan. “I [...]
February 25, 2009
Gaza stories: “Five hundred families are living in 69 tents”
For Gazan refugees, like 56 year old Muhammad Saleh a father of eight, living in tents stirs memories of the tragedy that began 61 years ago, when the 1948 war forced thousands of Palestinians into refugee camps. “I was a child back then living in Al-Yarmook refugee camp. I know the feeling of returning from [...]
February 24, 2009
Stories from Gaza: “I will die missing you”
by Caritas Jerusalem Communication Department “I was already missing you and now I will die missing you all,” said Jameel Megmas to his wife, son, and daughter Aya. Jameel had just returned to his family in Gaza from the West Bank after a two year absence. He’d left them because as a Palestinian government civil [...]
February 13, 2009
Caritas food gets to Gazans
“These parcels are something great,” said a Gazan woman as she peaked inside her Caritas food parcel. “These food items will last for a while. I am really happy to see the flour and sugar but I am so excited to eat the good quality cheese,” she said. Caritas is distributing 1000 parcels that contain [...]
February 9, 2009
CRS in Gaza
By Matt Davis, Catholic Relief Services/CRS (Caritas member in the USA)
During the past week I traveled to Gaza to assist with the logistics and coordination of the relief distributions as the first non-Gazan from CRS to gain access since the recent conflict erupted.
It was liberating to finally get into the Gaza and spend a few days with the CRS team; but simultaneously disheartening to witness the devastation first hand –from health clinics, apartment buildings, schools, and mosques to government buildings and individual farm houses.
February 4, 2009
Saturday sun shines beyond darkness
By Joseph Cornelius Donnelly Caritas Jerusalem invited some sixty young adult leaders to gather in Beit Jala at the Latin Patriarchal Seminary for a meeting to reflect on the call to every Christian to walk with our neighbor, to support those in need, to speak for the voiceless and to pursue truth, justice, dignity for [...]
January 31, 2009
Religious leaders at Davos call for peace in the Middle East
Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight, who is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has backed a call for peace in the Middle East issued by religious leaders at Davos today.
“I fully support this powerful statement from religious leaders, which reflects the deep distress many of us here in Davos feel at the suffering of innocent people in the Middle East,” she said.
