Palestine • Into Tomorrow • Christmas Appeal 2026

“For me, education is not only about books and exams. It’s about giving children hope, reminding them they still have a future. When you teach a child English, or mathematics, you are giving them knowledge, right? But you are also telling them — your future still matters.”Ahmed Dader — teacher and Tent School co-ordinator in Gaza City

This Christmas, the situation in Palestine is bleak
In Gaza, a year after the ‘ceasefire’, the death toll keeps rising and conditions get worse by the day. In the West Bank, settlement building, home demolitions and settler attacks go on unchecked.

But our partners refuse to give up on tomorrow. They’re still teaching, healing and reporting on the truth. They’re asking us to stand with them once again, so they can keep bringing hope.

From midday 1st December to midday 8th December, your gift will be doubled through the Big Give while match funding lasts. £25 becomes £50. £100 becomes £200.

1. £300 pays a tent school teacher for a month
   93% of Gaza’s schools have been destroyed or badly damaged. Many children have missed three years of school, and some have never been at all. Teachers take classes of up to 30 children in a tent, six days a week, through summer heat and winter rain, with almost nothing to work with. Your gift keeps them teaching.
2. £90 screens one woman for breast cancer
   Women are holding Gaza’s families together. Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, our partner for 30 years, runs the only working mammography unit in Gaza. There’s little chemotherapy, no radiotherapy and only a trickle of medical evacuations, so early screening and surgery are often a woman’s only hope.
3. £2,250 gives a family a safe last resort shelter in Masafer Yatta
   As a last resort, and desperate to stay on their land after the latest wave of home and tent demolitions,  families in the South Hebron Hills asked for help to rehabilitate local caves as safe, warm shelters.
   
   Our partners HIRN, Holy Land Trust and MA’AN Development work alongside these communities. Each cave costs £2,250 to rehabilitate. We have committed to paying for 25 — that’s £56,250. Help us keep that promise.

Gaza

Provide trauma therapy for children and families
In Gaza, there’s no “post” in post-traumatic stress, because the trauma is still happening. Our partners DSPR have specialised in trauma care since 2009. They combine play therapy for children with trauma-informed groups for mothers and one-to-one therapy for those who need it most.

Keep children safe from unexploded bombs
It is estimated that up to 20,000 tonnes of unexploded bombs and booby traps litter Gaza. Our partners Ajyal Association teach children how to play safely, how to spot danger and who to tell.

Document the genocide
Nearly 300 journalists have been killed in Gaza, and international media are still barred. The young writers and photographers trained by We Are Not Numbers have become Gaza’s journalists. Your gift pays them for their work.

“Journalists in Gaza know that documenting the destruction of their own society may cost them their lives, and their families. Yet they keep reporting,”  Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

Gaza and beyond

Care for badly injured children
Through Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah’s Children’s Fund in Lebanon, you’ll help provide trauma therapy and wrap-around care for 32 badly wounded children from Gaza, each facing multiple operations.

West Bank

Creative space for young people in the refugee camps
Alrowwad’s work began in Aida Refugee Camp and now reaches young people across the West Bank’s camps through dance, music, drama, photography and film.

Your gift will go where it’s most needed across these partners. If you’re a UK taxpayer, add Gift Aid on the Big Give page and we can claim an extra 25p for every £1 you give.

“Hope engenders hope.” Oscar Romero

Our partners can’t do this alone

Donate between 1st and 8th December, your gift will go twice as far. Please give this Christmas and help carry hope into tomorrow.

Moving On Up

This Christmas, Amos Trust is hitting the road — bringing Palestinian voices, music and stories to churches and venues across the UK. From London to Glasgow, we’ll be joined by speakers, artists and musicians from Palestine and beyond for evenings of hope, solidarity and culture.

After three devastating years, our partners tell us it’s never been harder in Palestine. Yet they refuse to give up on the future. These evenings are a chance to hear their stories first-hand, to stand together at Christmas, and to find the strength to keep hoping. Come along, bring a friend and be part of something that says Palestine has a tomorrow.

Photography: Ahmed Dader and Mark Kensett