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.
Building grassroots resilience
Hebron International Resource Network (HIRN) offers responsive and targeted support to some of the most threatened and marginalised Palestinian communities and individuals. HIRN brings compassion, practical help, and encouragement needed to remain and grow in the face of aggression, intimidation, and dispossession.
Hebron International Resource Network (HIRN) offers support to Palestinian communities and individuals on the basis of need and tries to remove obstacles that prevent them from enjoying their basic human rights.
HIRN is small and agile by design and is able to respond quickly when help is needed. They manage several grassroots humanitarian and development projects at any one time, mostly in support of Palestinians living in areas where the Israeli Occupation and settlement projects are most visible and aggressive.
There are too many interventions to list here but recent projects have included:
In Area ‘C’ of the West Bank, HIRN provides:
- seeds, tools and infrastructure to farmers threatened by settlements and settler violence
- a range of support for highly vulnerable small communities in the South Hebron Hills
- emergency shelter to families whose homes have been demolished
- educational support in the form of buildings and materials, particularly to support the ability of girls to remain in education
- transport solutions and the provision of sporting equipment
- emergency medical treatment for victims of Occupation violence
- the development and support of an autism centre in the city of Yatta.
In Hebron City:
- numerous interventions to support the families in and around Al Shuhada Street whose lives are affected daily by the presence of settlers and soldiers
- ongoing support for the Al Shuhada Street kindergarten.
In all of these projects, HIRN seeks to respect the dignity of the people and communities it partners with and to empower and encourage the amazing resilience that is already present.
Amos Trust’s partnership with HIRN has grown alongside our friendship and the administrative support we have provided to UK Friends of HIRN (UKFOH). Their incredible fundraising and advocacy have enabled the above projects to be delivered.
Amos has also had the opportunity to get to know HIRN on the ground in Palestine, to see the work, to meet the people and to partner in some small initiatives of our own.
Palestine Justice resources
Take a look through our range of resources, blog posts, downloads and products to find out more about our Palestine Justice work.
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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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