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.
Amos Trust has recently endorsed this campaign from Stop the Wall about the Jewish National Fund and how it disguises itself as a hero of the environment and why we need to hold it accountable. Amos Director Chris Rose writes.
Call For Action
Hold the Jewish National Fund accountable
The struggles for environmental, social, racial, economic and political justice are intertwined. Connecting these struggles is a necessary precondition for a sustainable world.
Israel’s policies of Occupation and colonisation are not only a violation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. The system of oppression and discrimination that Israel imposes on Palestinians on all the territory under its control is a complex of human rights and environmental rights violations which are built on a vision of subjugation that targets the people, the land and its natural resources.
It operates through different institutions that support the Israeli government, including the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The JNF wears the garb of environmentalism but has a shameful past and a dreadful present.
According to Independent Jewish Voices Canada, “Since its inception 120 years ago, the Jewish National Fund Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (JNF-KKL), has been one of the main engines for the colonisation of Palestinian lands. It owns 13% of the land in Israel, and has helped to entrench apartheid in the country through its policy to lease land exclusively to Jews.”
The JNF calls itself Israel’s largest green organisation and the oldest green organisation in the world for its afforestation projects of millions of trees to cover up Palestinian towns and villages that Israel destroyed when it was created in 1948. This aims to prevent displaced Palestinians from returning back to their homes. This is never an environmentally friendly act; rather, it is displacement and colonisation of someone else’s land.
The system of oppression and discrimination that Israel imposes on Palestinians on all the territory under its control is a complex of human rights and environmental rights violations which are built on a vision of subjugation that targets the people, the land and its natural resources.
Although it is applauded as a world-respected organisation in afforestation, sustainable development and water, the JNF has been responsible for draining the ecologically sensitive Hula Lake and surrounding marshes.
Currently, the JNF and other government-backed right-wing settler organisations are actively engaged in the looming expulsion of some 90 Palestinian houses from the neighbourhood of Silwan, and elsewhere in Jerusalem.
Despite its long-standing involvement in the continued denial of the right of return of Palestinian refugees, the dispossession of Palestinians citizens of Israel and illegal settlement expansion activities in the occupied West Bank, the JNF has never been held accountable.
The exploitation of the climate justice struggle by the oppressive Israeli system and its institutions like the JNF only perpetuates social and environmental injustices.
It is time to act
As environmental organisations that uphold principles of anti-colonial and social justice struggles, we commit to:
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.
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