Making the invisible, visible A Jewish reflection on the Just Walk to Jerusalem
How to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in November? You can be sure there’s going to be no end of bad ways. Amos trustee Robert Cohen writes.
A place of peace
Al Ahli Hospital is in the centre of Gaza City and treats over 45,000 patients each year. It is a haven of peace and hope in the middle of one of the world’s most troubled areas.
Restrictions on movement and imports mean that the Al Ahli Hospital is often without basic medicines and life is made even more stressful with limited supplies of electricity, food, water, fuel and personnel.
Al Ahli Arab Hospital
A Place of Peace
Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City was bombed on 17th October 2023 — up to 500 people were killed. Despite the extreme adversity, the hospital staff and volunteers are committed to serving the community through out-patient and in-patient care, including emergency and ambulance services - and its doors are open to everyone in need.
In addition to its hospital facility, Al Ahli provides free mobile clinics to villages across Gaza and offers specialised support for different community groups such as free clinics for elderly women, free care for burn injuries and underweight or malnourished children, screening programmes for early detection of breast cancer among women and essential psychosocial support.
The hospital also partners with community organisations to provide much-needed training for local people in counselling, social work, basic first aid and medical aid, and run their own training programmes for graduate and undergraduate youth.
During the 2014 summer attacks on Gaza, the hospital opened its doors to family members of the wounded who were desperate and seeking refuge – providing them with food, beds and support – hiring additional staff to respond to the massive need.
They managed to keep the hospital open 24 hours a day to provide the vital emergency care needed. The surgical team dealt with explosion injuries and traumas, including abdominal injuries, bone and chest injuries and different types of burns. On average, they treated 45 severe burns cases a day as a direct result of the war, 50% of whom were children.
To find out more about Al Ahli Hospital, please watch our short film Al Ahli: A Place of Peace — thank you.
Palestine Justice resources
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Just Walk to Jerusalem We walked, we talked... we helped change the record
"Our apology for the impact of Balfour on Palestinians, our rejection of Theresa May’s decision that the British government would be celebrating Balfour and acknowledgement that we had no right to promise this land to another was broadcast live on Palestine TV and set in motion a press onslaught that would follow us through the rest of the walk." A Just Walk reflection from Amos Director Chris Rose.
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Banned Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
For Amos, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions has always been very straightforward: if a government refuses to acknowledge international law and to deny basic human rights, then we have to pursue the non-violent means available to us – to challenge this situation." Amos Director Chris Rose writes about the BDS call against Israel.
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In This Land The continuing journey of solidarity in Palestine
"Gaza is fast becoming unliveable and there is growing concern that a new conflict will break out. This represents another formidable chapter in the ongoing struggle faced by our partners NECC and Al Ahli Hospital." An update from Chris Rose on our partners and projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Women 4 Women Standing in solidarity with the women of Gaza
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Amos Trust is running its annual appeal to raise awareness and vital funds to support the women of Gaza in their fight against breast cancer – Women 4 Women. Amos supporter Sarah Baron writes about her experience of meeting the incredible women of the West Bank.
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Walking To Jerusalem Blisters, hope and other facts on the ground
“The idea was beautiful and crazy. The logistics alone would be an organisational nightmare. The risk assessment would run for pages. It would be a five-month, 3,300 kilometres trek across eleven countries with mountains, rivers and seas to navigate. And then there was no guarantee that the walkers would even be allowed to cross the border into the occupied West Bank, let alone reach Jerusalem.” Amos trustee Robert Cohen writes the forword for ‘Walking To Jerusalem’ – Justin Butcher’s book about his experience of walking from London to Jerusalem as part of Amos Trust’s ‘Just Walk To Jerusalem’ project in 2017.
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Introducing Lucy Talgieh From Wi’am Conflict Resolution Centre in Bethlehem
“As women, we have to work vertically at a national level to make the change but also horizontally with other women to empower one another and this is the work that Wi’am is committed to and which we undertake with other women in Bethlehem and across the West Bank.” Meet Lucy Talgieh from Wi’am Conflict Resolution Centre in Bethlehem.
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The Key of Return An update from Gaza City
“We ask if any have attended the Great March of Return marches, which have been running for the last 6 months — the tutor laughs and says, of course, they all have.” Chris Rose visited Al Ahli Hospital and NECC in Gaza City in October. Here he writes about how these two Amos partners continue to do such important work under such difficult circumstances.
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