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Women and children in Gaza bearing brunt of ongoing war

Women and children in Gaza are bearing the heavy brunt of the ongoing war, according to reports from the United Nations, with close to a million women and girls displaced and 12,882 women and children already perished in a war that has now raged for more than 100 days.

Le directeur du New Imperial Hotel à Jérusalem: «Nous n’avons pas besoin de plus de sympathie, mais d’actions»

Le jeune Abu El Walid Dajani, six ans, est venu prêter main-forte à son père dans la gestion du New Imperial Hotel près de la porte de Jaffa, à Jérusalem. La bâtisse historique, propriété du Patriarcat orthodoxe grec, est louée depuis avant 1967 à la famille Dajani pour assurer la gestion de l’hôtel. M. Dajani, aujourd’hui âgé de 77 ans, en est devenu le directeur. Or, la menace d’expulsion bouleverse le mode de vie que la famille a connu depuis des générations.

Manager of New Imperial Hotel in Jerusalem: “We don’t need any more sympathy—we need action”

As a six-year-old boy, Abu El Walid Dajani began helping his father manage the New Imperial Hotel near Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem. The historic property is owned by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, and leased before 1967 to the Dajani family to run as a hotel.  Now 77, Dajani has become the manager. But the threat of eviction is derailing a way of life his family has known for generations.

South Hebron Hills families share stories of life under occupation

Jack Munayer, coordinator for the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI), recently visited the South Hebron Hills area with diplomatic delegates from eight different countries, as well as Israeli activists. The visit was organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The group visited families and listened to their stories with the goal of discerning the nature of hardship and trauma that the occupation continues to cause.

East Jerusalem Initiative: accompanying families facing eviction and displacement

The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) is beginning an East Jerusalem Initiative, through which the WCC-EAPPI is accompanying—even without a physical presence—families facing eviction and displacement, as well as people facing other violations of their rights. Below, WCC director of the Commission for the Churches on International Affairs Peter Prove explains the goals and history behind the East Jerusalem Initiative.

Initiative à Jérusalem-Est: accompagner les familles frappées d’expulsion et de déplacement

Le Programme œcuménique d’accompagnement en Palestine et en Israël (EAPPI) du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) lance une initiative à Jérusalem-Est qui permettra d’accompagner – même sans présence physique – les familles frappées d’expulsion et de déplacement, ainsi que les personnes subissant d’autres violations de leurs droits. Le directeur de la Commission des Églises pour les affaires internationales du COE, Peter Prove, présente ci-dessous le but et le cadre historique de cette initiative.