Moments of joy and warmth
Jan 03, 2025
You know how horrible everything is in Gaza. You’ve watched the videos. You’ve seen the reports. You’ve heard the stories. But we want to start the new year by sharing...
Stories of Our Work
“We are still here”: Updates from MECA’s emergency response in Gaza
Jul 09, 2024
You will find us in every street, among the tents of the displaced, and amid the rubble of destroyed homes, even during the most dangerous times. We are there, carrying...
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Gaza Diaries: Nurturing children’s spirits in Gaza
Mar 12, 2024
MECA staff member in Gaza Wafaa El-Derawi leads games with children living in an informal shelter in Gaza For over five months, hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza have...
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Gaza Diaries: Saying goodbye to Lian – a dancer and a dreamer
Aug 12, 2022
Lian during team building activities in MECA's psychosocial support project Lian, the stage butterfly, as her coaches and friends call her, succumbed to her injuries. She passed away yesterday after...
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Visit with me in Palestine
Dec 29, 2018
I live in Palestine with my husband and two small children so I get to see MECA's work here firsthand. I’d like to share a little bit about my life...
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Winter in Gaza is very hard for the children
Dec 29, 2015
Winter has come to Gaza and, more than a year after the terrible Israeli assault of 2014, thousands of families are still living in houses with holes in the walls...
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“People, here, are living because they do not have the choice to die”
Dec 17, 2015
Report from Gaza by Safaa El Derawi, MECA Project AssistantMore than a year after the Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip in 2014, the situation here continues to get worse....
Stories of Our Work
Israel: 240 Palestinian Children ‘Sexually Abused’ in Jerusalem Detention Centres, Group Claims
Dec 02, 2014
Israeli police detain a Palestinian child in Jerusalem following clashes in the holy city in late October 2014(Reuters) By Tabatha Kinder A justice group for Palestinians arrested in Israel...
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