Healthcare

When generosity meets a much-needed autoclave
May 25, 2023- Posted in Healthcare, People, Supporters, Uncategorized
Q&A with Bishop Greg and Marti Rickel: Taking the next step along the pilgrim way Bishop Greg and Marti Rickel have made many pilgrimages to the Holy Land. In October 2022 they accompanied AFEDJ trustees and sta! on site visits to a dozen diocesan schools,...

Ahli Arab Hospital needs your help
May 11, 2023- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare
Ahli’s Christian leaders keep the doors open even as government hospitals reduce services The ongoing violence in between the Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Force affects civilians and innocents on both sides of the wall with a disproportionate number of women and...

In Gaza we live minute by minute.
April 14, 2023- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare, Palestine, Video
Ahli Arab Hospital’s Suhaila Tarazi shares news of current conditions in Gaza in these uncertain days. In late March, Ahli Arab Hospital Director Suhaila Tarazi joined a Zoom conversation with members of Epiphany Parish in Seattle as part of the Bearing Witness curriculum. At the end of...

Christian leaders serve in the midst of uncertainty
January 31, 2023- Posted in Diocese of Jerusalem, Disabilities, Healthcare
A message from AFEDJ Executive Director Eileen Spencer As each new report of violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem arrives, my heart goes out to all people of the region affected by unrest, uncertainty, and fear for themselves and their loved ones. In recent...

Inside the gate of Ahli Arab Hospital, the heartbreaking poverty of Gaza City is supplanted by hope and healing
October 24, 2022- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare
In mid-October a small group of AFEDJ trustees and staff visited Malalha, an impoverished neighborhood of 3,000 Bedouins native to Gaza, and Ahli Arab Hospital, a beacon of light for all who seek care. Shortly after the May 2021 war in Gaza, the UN Secretary-General...

Ahli Arab Hospital needs your ongoing support
August 17, 2022- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare
A brief war highlights the fragility of life in Gaza as families suffer from indiscriminate attacks on refugee camps and acute shortages of water, fuel, and medicine. Over three days last week, the exchange of bombs and rockets between Israel and the Islamic Jihad faction...

Thank you for bringing healing and hope to Gaza
July 22, 2022- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare
More than $80,000 raised in May to mark the one-year anniversary of the war in Gaza will support Ahli Hospital’s ability to offer compassionate care to the most vulnerable Suhaila Tarazi, Ahli Hospital’s director, said this when she heard that hundreds of American Friends responded...

Remember Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on the one-year anniversary of the war
May 10, 2022- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare, Video
“God will never leave this hospital. Ahli Hospital is a witness to God’s miracles and to the love of God. Our American friends are witnesses to God’s love. You are our partners in hope.” – Suhaila Tarazi, Arab Ahli Hospital On May 10, 2021, a...

Leaders at Ahli Hospital find strength in your faithful and generous support
February 17, 2022- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare
“Despite the setbacks Ahli encountered during 2021, we are proud that we are able to make a difference in thousands of lives.” — Suhaila Tarazi With so much turmoil in the world and the ongoing challenges of the pandemic competing for headlines, it’s not surprising...

Your unwavering support allows Ahli Hospital to make a huge impact on children traumatized by conflict
December 9, 2021- Posted in Gaza, Healthcare
“The crises of war, Covid 19, shortages of medications and fuel along with poverty are among many challenges that Ahli is facing daily! It becomes awfully difficult to continue working under such a harsh situation. There is no way Ahli could make this difference to...