Gaza: The work continues Ocotber 2025
Following the ceasefire, Gaza begins to rebuild. Amos Trust continues providing aid, medical care, trauma support and education while demanding lasting justice for Palestine.
There was an awful inevitability to the killings this weekend in Jenin and Jerusalem. We deplore the loss of any life, and our thoughts and prayers are with all those who mourn.
Palestine/Israel
30th January 2023
There was an awful inevitability to the killings this weekend in Jenin and Jerusalem. We deplore the loss of any life, and our thoughts and prayers are with all those who mourn.
While we welcome the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken flying in to try to calm the situation, this will, at best, be a temporary reprieve in what is an escalating pattern of violence.
The new Israeli government has not indicated any desire to develop a long-term equitable agreement with the Palestinian authorities. Their rhetoric has been the opposite of this, promising settlement expansion, new demolitions of Palestinian homes, changes in the legal frameworks so that soldiers and those guilty of killing Palestinians on the West Bank are even more unlikely to come to trial and the annexation of Area C.
For young Palestinians, there are no signs of hope. Their own government has largely been discredited, is hugely unpopular and unable to deliver any real change. The economy is in tatters. There are greater limitations to movement. More and more of the Palestinian Territories on the West Bank are disappearing, and East Jerusalem and Al Aqsa feel under constant threat.
Israel’s impunity from the consequences of breaching its responsibilities under international human rights conventions and the unblinking support by most of the international community means that most people in Palestine have little hope for any meaningful International intervention.
With the threatened clampdown by countries (including the UK government) on the use of legitimate, non-violent responses such as Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, there seems nowhere to turn. So the inevitable awful response is for some (and they are very much the minority) to take up weapons and turn to the myth of redemptive violence.
If the US regime really wants to engage meaningfully, it is not too late, but this must start with a commitment to achieving a just response that recognises the rights of all Palestinians and Israelis and that these rights must be equal.
Amos Trust
30th January, 2023
Amos Trust is working with Ajyal Association for Creativity and Development, a youth-led organisation in Gaza City, to support families facing displacement and food shortages. From empowering women through microbakeries to providing thousands of hot meals for children and their families, discover how grassroots resilience is bringing hope amid the ongoing crisis in Gaza.
Our partner in Gaza, Al Alhi Arab Hospital, is now running as an emergency centre undertaking 20-35 operations a day with 150 inpatients. It is now the only outpatient hospital and general medical facility serving a vast part of Gaza City. Read our full Al Ahli Hospital update.
“In the past year, I have lost many of the tangible parts of my memories — the people and places and things that helped me remember. Every destroyed house becomes a kind of album, filled not with photos but with real people, the dead pressed between its pages.” Read our latest Gaza update with news of our partners, Al Ahli Hospital, DSPR, the Gaza Sunbirds and We Are Not Numbers.
“We, the undersigned organisations, call upon global leaders to uphold their legal and moral responsibilities in light of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and the UN General Assembly resolution.” Read our shared post about how world leaders must act to end Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Amos Trust
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