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:
In Hebron City:
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.
Take a look through our range of resources, blog posts, downloads and products to find out more about our Palestine Justice work.
Featuring writer, director and academic Ahmed Masoud and journalist Hind Khoudary (above) in conversation with Amos Trust Director Chris Rose. As the blockade of Gaza enters its 13th year, the devastating impact on Gaza’s infrastructure, economy and health service meant that as the pandemic entered the general population, it had a devastating effect. Hear from Ahmed and Hind about what impact coronavirus had on life in the Strip.
With Robert Cohen in conversation with Sami Awad and Elias D’eis discussing the situation in Bethlehem and throughout Palestine today and asking how we in the UK should look to focus our efforts during this time. Sami Awad is Founder of Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem, one of Amos Trust’s partners in the West Bank and Elias D’eis is Holy Land Trust’s Executive Director. Host Robert Cohen is a forthright blogger and one of the leading dissident Jewish voices on Israel-Palestine in Britain today and an Amos trustee.
First Of The Month — a new big read from Amos Trust. Digital-only, long-form essays from Amos staff, friends and creative collaborators. For April’s edition, Asmaa Tayeh from We Are Not Numbers in Gaza writes about losing her 95-year old grandmother.
Amos Trust works alongside a wide variety of partners to promote equal rights for Palestinians, to campaign against Israel’s apartheid policies and to call for an end to the military occupation of the Palestinian territories. We seek to find creative ways to raise awareness, educate and challenge stereotypes by communicating the message and experiences of our partners and friends in the different areas within which we work.
“Entering the Old City is a wonderful induction into Palestinian food and markets. Women from the surrounding villages sell fresh produce on the steps, the aroma of cardamom-infused coffee from street vendors hangs in the air.” Gemma Bell and Heather Masoud take us on a journey to the markets, restaurants and kitchens of Palestine. Photography by Issy Croker.
“I gave myself ten months to do it but gave up, defeated after four, admitting this would never be a popular fundraiser and that I was no runner. So Run The Wall was shelved.” Katie Hagley writes about how, eventually, Run The Wall became such a success.
Hello. Are you sitting comfortably? Welcome to 6 Stories, a literary update on our work from around the world. As the writer, James Joyce once said, “in the particular is contained the universal.” For what is given as being uniquely ours is often what we most have in common with every other person on this planet.
When I was a child, one of our neighbours in Gaza was a TV journalist, and she would let me wear her press vest. There I was, in a too-large navy-blue vest, holding the pestle that my mother used for crushing spices like a microphone, pretending to read the news from an Al-Jazeera news ticker. I would always end the ‘report’ by identifying myself as the Palestinian press icon: “Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera, The Occupied Jerusalem.” Walaa Sabah from We Are Not Numbers in Gaza writes about the killing of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh.
Jessie and Tilly chat with Ellen Logan, Linzy Na Nakorn and Noor Thabet from The Big Ride for Palestine. Initiated in 2015, ‘The Big Ride’ is an initiative by supporters of the Palestinian people that combines a love of cycling with practical solidarity and awareness-raising.
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