Disaster Response Palestine Project #61624

Emergency appeal for Gaza - Al Ahli Hospital

A microproject by Amos Trust

Project Report | Apr 10, 2025
Al Ahli Hospital update

By Katie Hagley | Head of Community Engagement

“Many people at the hospital are feeling very down about the current situation. They had started to feel optimistic, but now it is so hard to keep any hope. It feels like the world will just watch us starve and say nothing.” Suheila Tarazi, Director, Al Ahli Hospital

Dear friend,

Having supported our emergency appeal we thought you would be interetsed in an update from Al Ahli hospital at this difficult time.

After a very fragile ceasefire, in the early hours of Tuesday 18th March, Israel launched fresh bombing raids on Gaza, tearing up what remained of the ceasefire agreement. These raids killed over 404 people (including 100 children), injured hundreds more and terrified the entire community, since then attacks have continued on a daily basis.

According to official figures from the Gazan Ministry of Health, more than 50,000 people have died in Gaza since 7th October 2023, with 8,000 more missing and presumed dead. In reality, the true number is likely to be far higher.

92% of homes in Gaza City have been destroyed or badly damaged and the infrastructure has been completely obliterated. Further north, in Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, the devastation is even worse. No aid has entered Gaza since 2nd March and the situation is rapidly deteriorating.

Many of those killed or injured in the ongoing attacks are being taken to our partner, Al Ahli ‘Baptist’ Hospital, one of the only operational trauma hospitals in Gaza City. The hospital has been longing to shift away from constant emergency care and resume its regular programmes — reconstructive and standard surgeries, diagnostic testing and cancer treatments, physiotherapy, burns treatments and infant health and nutrition services — yet the need for emergency care remains overwhelming.

We have been able to provide money for fuel and essential medical care in recent weeks as well as money for essential repairs to the building and we will continue to do so with your help. As well as working with Al Ahli hospital in Gaza we are supporting other Palestinian partners in Gaza and the West Bank. You can find out more at www.amosrust.org.

Thank you for your continued support.

Best Wishes,

Katie Hagley.

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Apr 3, 2024
Update on Amos Trust support reaching Gaza

By Chris Rose | Director

The situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. So far between 7 October 2023 and 29 March 2024, at least 32,623 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 75,092 Palestinians injured, according to MoH in Gaza. Over 1.8 million people have been displaced, many multiple times, and over 70 percent of the population is projected to face catastrophic hunger between March and July 2024. There are also the wide spread communicable diseases and those resulting from poor sanitation and lack of available drinking water. It is estimated that for those sheltering in Rafah 941 people are having to share a single toilet.

The health system in Gaza is barely surviving, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with only 10 out of 36 hospitals currently functional, albeit partially. Partially functional hospitals provide limited services, are overwhelmed with patients, and face critical shortages of fuel, medicines, medical supplies, and health personnel. There is such widespread destruction of buildings that at least 67% of schools in Gaza will either need full reconstruction or major rehabilitation work to be functional again.

In this period from January to March 29th Amos Trust has managed to provide vital Aid through our partner organisations and other organisations that we work with in Gaza. The money raised through GlobalGiving has formed a small part of this. In this period we have provided over $90,000 of food parcels to displaced people sheltering in the South of Gaza (Rafah Area) through a partnership with a UK Development agency. We have provided $25,000 of support to the Culture and Free Thought Association through a partnership with Christian Aid to enable them to provide vital support to local communities.

We also provided $37,200 to our partner the Al Ahli ‘baptist’ Hospital to pay salary costs for their staff members who are sheltering in the south of Gaza (this is essential for them and their families survival) and we have also provided a further $50,000 of support to the Gaza Sunbirds emergency relief programmes - through which they are providing food parcels and further emergency support to their local communities. Finally, we gave a grant of $25,000 towards a new partnership with MA’AN to provide hygiene services in South Gaza and $25,000 to MECC-DSPR to fund emergency relief being provided by our longstanding partner in Gaza NECC.

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