VIDEO: Food parcels from local farmers and producers in Gaza
We're excited to share this video of a collaboration between MECA, ZamZam Water, PaliRoots, and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees to provide food parcels to 1800 families in Gaza. As always, MECA strives to [...]
Gaza Diaries: Some uplifting news amidst the pandemic
Despite the pandemic and its impact on the world and lately in Gaza, I want to mention a few uplifting remarks from our relatively short experience with COVID-19 outbreak. MECA team and partners organizations were [...]
Remembering Sabra & Shatila Massacre
The events of September 16, 1982 are permanently etched in the heart of every Palestinian who was alive on that day. Even the young people, who were born after, know all about the massacre in [...]
Gaza Diaries: Between Lockdown, Heatwaves & Occupation
After 20 days of lockdown in Gaza, we’ve asked our Maia Project Coordinator, Ghada Mansi, to tell us a little about how she's coping with life under lockdown in the Gaza Strip and spending her [...]
Updates from Youth Vision Society in Gaza
MECA partner the Youth Vision Society writes below about the situation in Gaza and MECA's work distributing food parcels with cleaning supplies to 1,250 families all over Gaza last week with our local partners. Many [...]
VIDEO: Angela Davis & Jamal Juma’ in Conversation about Abolition and Liberation
An international discussion of the connections between Black Lives Matter calls to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down all apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers [...]
Emergency Request: Coronavirus now spreading in Gaza
I’m writing to you from my apartment in Gaza City, where I am under lockdown orders along with the other two million other people in this small place. Although I’m alone I can feel the [...]
Updates from Gaza
We received this important update from one of our partners in Gaza, Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, this morning. Please take a moment to read what the situation is like in Gaza. We will be [...]
Summer fun for Children in Gaza
After months of intermittent lockdowns and social distancing measures, gatherings are once again permitted in Gaza. Thankfully there are only a handful of active cases of coronavirus in Gaza and all of them are people [...]
Emergency Appeal: From MECA partner in Beirut
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A helicopter puts out a fire at the scene of an explosion at the port of Lebanon's capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo [...]