The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the suspension of operations in 16 hospitals and health centres in the Gaza Strip due to a severe lack of electricity and fuel, according to Quds Press. The situation has worsened dramatically in recent months: the UN has...
I was born in an era in which people believed that the Israeli occupation would have soon come to an end. After the signing of the Oslo accords, my father was sure that, before I would’ve begun attending school, there would’ve no longer have been...
Here we are, everything is ready to lay the first brick! The new project of the Children's Land center will be modular and will include the essential units to restore all the services implemented in the old center, from children education to women support and the pediatric...
The decision comes after Israel’s Channel 2 revealed that the EU had distributed a number of mobile structures in the E1 area of East Jerusalem in addition to areas in Essawiyeh. The Israeli civil administration has said it would not allow any illegal structures in...
Um al Nasser, Gaza Strip, 20th July Israeli tanks and infantry occupied the village of Um Al Nasser on the night of July,17th forcing the entire community to leave their homes. Around 5000 people, the majority women and children, began fleeing rapidly their homes in the dark, amidst bombardments...
Fatima, the director of the Children's Land center, tells us how the population of Um al Nasser lived during the 50 days of the military operation "Protective Edge". A unique and detailed witness, especially on the night in which the inhabitants had to leave the...
There should be more than 800 tanks of water to cover the needs of storage and distribution for the population of Um al Nasser. Many of them have been damaged, some are unrepairable. Thanks to the first donations received for the Gaza Emergency Fund, A.K. started to direct the...
Yes, our kindergarten is a pile of rubble. One can see our precious books, educational games, a piece of a laptop with the sticker Vento di Terra on it. There's a lot of us in this scrap and if you stop too long to the voice...
Among the many benefits one can have working for an international NGO was the chance to do what was once considered impossible. This can be confirmed wholeheartedly by VdT local coordinator, Mss. Sara Alafifi, working on the project: “Promoting the Bedouin Center “Children’s Land” as...
JERICHO (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday injured a child during a raid on a West Bank Bedouin village in which they also confiscated solar energy panels donated to locals by a local sustainability organization, a local official said. A Fatah party official in Jahalin, an...
