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The Palestine Children's Relief Fund sends medical equipment, supplies, and American medical personnel to the region to treat difficult cases and train Palestinian surgeons. Several injured or sick children are being treated in the U.S. for free. The PCRF relies on volunteers throughout the U.S. who act as host families and donors. The ...
Children and children's rights have long been a focal point of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict, dating as early as the 1929 Hebron massacre and the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, both of which claimed the lives of children, precipitating a long conflict that has often led to the displacement, injury, and death of youths.
In November 2023, a group of children outside al-Shifa Hospital held a press conference asking the world for an end to the war. [242] A small group of children in Rafah held their own protest in advance of a planned Rafah offensive in February 2024, holding signs in English that read "We refuse to die" and "Save us from this genocide". [243]
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The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is warning about the killing of children in Gaza amid fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the United States supplied Israel with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs to be dropped on Gaza, a 25-mile strip of land with more than 2 million people living ...
Temporary for over 50 years now. Gaza is today, effectively, a city imprisoned without trial." Like David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Chris Martin and others, Marillion support the "HOPING Foundation", [2] an NGO that supports Palestinian children and adolescents in the refugee camps, and encourage their fans to do the same. [3]
18 November 2009 – Recognised as one of 500 of the world's most influential Muslims in a book by Professor John Esposito of Georgetown University, USA. [40] 2011 – Award from Sheikh Yusuf al Qardawi for service to Palestine. [41] [42] 1 April 2016 – Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, South Africa. [43]