Israeli - Palestinian conflict
Response
- PSE101 | ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT | MARCH 11, 2010Israel/Palestine: Follow on Appeal - Gaza and West Bank
APPEAL | OPEN
Due to the ongoing crisis, ACT members continue their assistance to the affected Palestinian people. - MEPL81 | ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT | SEPTEMBER 25, 2009Israel/Palestine: Gaza Crisis
APPEAL REVISION #3 | CLOSED
The ACT Palestine Forum members continue providing assistance to affected population with the addition of psycho-social activities carried out by DanChurchAid for youths in Gaza. - MEPL81 | ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT | MAY 4, 2009Israel/Palestine: Gaza Crisis
APPEAL REVISION #2 | CLOSED
This appeal MEPL81 revision 2 takes into account the escalation of violence and its impact on the population. The appeal will be extended until the end of 2009 to continue the support to most vulnerable families. - MEPL81 | ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT | JANUARY 16, 2009Israel/Palestine: Gaza Crisis
APPEAL REVISION #1 | CLOSED
The Gaza Strip is experiencing a devastating war with attacks by the Israeli army on Gaza since 27 December 2008. - MEPL81 | ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT | JULY 18, 2008Israel/Palestine: Follow on Appeal - Gaza Crisis
- MEPL71 | ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT | FEBRUARY 7, 2008Israel/Palestine: Gaza Crisis
- MEPL71 | ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT | JULY 9, 2007Israel/Palestine: Gaza Crisis
News
- NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 18, 2009Gaza: Healing the Traumatized City
“My child has stopped talking” one woman says. “I have a boy who is 15 years old. Since the war he has become a bed-wetter. He can’t go to the bathroom at night”, says another. - FEATURE STORY: JULY 23, 2009Gaza: “We are captive and slowly suffocating”
UN estimates that 98 percent of private businesses have closed and more than 100,000 people have lost their jobs since June 2007, with total unemployment at about 45 percent. - FEATURE STORY: JULY 10, 2009Gaza: Lifting childrens' spirits with music
110 children aged 6-15 years attended the event at the Holst Cultural Center/Gaza celebrating the launch of Rim Banna’s new album April Blossoms. It has been produced in cooperation with Norwegian Church Cultural Workshop. - NEWS STORY: MAY 27, 2009Gaza strip: Trauma therapy brings life back to children
These activities, supported by ACT member DanChurchAid (DCA), are being carried out in twelve schools for about 6,000 students. - NEWS STORY: MARCH 20, 2009Gaza: Response continues despite restricted access
As violent exchanges continue despite the ceasefire, ACT members continue to respond to the significant needs inside the cut-off and conflict-torn territory. - FEATURE STORY: FEBRUARY 10, 2009Gaza hospital under fireLife is slowly returning to what passes as normal in a health facility where, because of Israel’s blockade of the strip, supplies are always short.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 30, 2009Gaza: Bombed clinic to rise from the rubble
The clinic was destroyed after people living in the flat above received a telephone warning from the Israelis to vacate the premises. A missile strike followed 15 minutes later.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 30, 2009Gaza response continue despite access challenges
Aid organisations continue to experience significant difficulty in sending staff and additional supplies into the area to support emergency relief work and begin recovery operations.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 27, 2009Gaza: "People still look at the sky", report ACT medical workers
ACT International is working to coordinate both national and international psychosocial assistance in Gaza to ensure effective and appropriate care for those most traumatised by the war.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 20, 2009Gaza: Should Israel pay compensation for destroyed clinics?
ACT members had four clinics bombed by Israeli air strikes. Three of them were mobile clinics, built into small trucks, funded by DanChurchAid. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 19, 2009Gaza: Food distribution between skeleton houses
No bombs are falling over Gaza today and aid workers are now working hard to distribute food and medicine to the affected population living in the aftermath of 22 days of war. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 18, 2009Gaza blockade must be lifted
The silence from the guns has little meaning if the blockade continues.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 16, 2009ACT starts risky food distribution in Gaza
On Monday distribution of food and water, medicines and blankets will start. ACT will cooperate with local organizations and foundations to carry out the dangerous distribution. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 15, 2009Appeal for 4 mill. US dollars, urgent for Gaza
The money will be used for food supplements, medicines, medical supplies and equipment, cash for food and cash for work, and psychosocial assistance.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 15, 2009Appeal for 4 million US dollars, urgent for Gaza
The money will be used for food supplements, medicines, medical supplies and equipment, cash for food and cash for work, and psychosocial assistance.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 15, 2009Gaza hospitals in horror: Burns from phosphorus bombs
An overwhelming number of patients are suffering from severe burns as a result of the use of white phosphorous bombs by the Israeli army.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 14, 2009Much-needed aid reaches Gazans
An initial three truckloads of ACT-supported food, milk and medical supplies have now reached Gazans in desperate need of assistance. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 13, 2009Gaza: Food and medicine on way
Three truck loads of food, medicine and blankets from ACT International passed the border of Gaza Tuesday evening. From tomorrow, UN will be streamlining all aid delivery in the Gaza Strip. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 13, 2009Gaza: Teenager died from fear
The heartbreaking story is told by her aunt, Suhaila Tarazi, who is the director of Al Ahli hospital in Gaza.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 12, 2009Gaza: The poorest lost their only heath care
The ACT International hospital in the densely populated Shijaiya in Gaza was reduced to rubble Saturday, when the building was hit by an Israeli missile. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 11, 2009Gaza clinic destroyed by Israeli missile
"The clinic is completely destroyed with all its equipment and medical supplies," reports Zack Sabella from the council’s Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees.
- SITUATION REPORT: JANUARY 9, 2009Gaza situation report
The devastation and damage in Gaza resulting from the ongoing Israeli military activities is increasing, reports ACT member Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees.
- SITUATION REPORT: JANUARY 8, 2009Gaza situation report
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 7, 2009Food, medicines, blankets and trauma therapists headed for Gaza
The need for emergency psychosocial care within the war-torn area is overwhelming. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 6, 2009Gaza: Israel bombs three mobile clinics
The three clinics were built inside small trucks and equipped to function as mobile health facilities in Gaza. - NEWS STORY: JANUARY 5, 2009Many injured civilians inaccessible, says Gaza hospital director Civilians injured by bombings are stuck in their homes without food and water and are unable to seek medical attention.
- NEWS STORY: JANUARY 2, 2009Eyewitnesses in Gaza: “They kill our children at home”
People have to stay in their homes, more or less exposed to the bombing, just hoping to stay alive.
- NEWS STORY: DECEMBER 28, 2008ACT warns of further Gaza humanitarian crisis without ceasefire
ACT International warns of a dramatic escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, if Israel, Hamas and other militant groups do not cease the current hostilities.
