Mazen Naim, NRC's advocacy and communications officer in Gaza, on the roof of his house in Beit Hanoun
Photo: Karl Schembri/NRC — Les billedteksten Mazen Naim jobber for Flyktninghjelpen og ser utover Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Foto: Flyktninghjelpen/Karl Schembri

Vårt arbeid i Palestina

Palestina

I Palestina lider rundt 4,9 millioner palestinere som følge av langvarig okkupasjon.

Humanitært overblikk

Rundt 4,9 millioner palestinere lider under en langvarig okkupasjon hvor de nektes grunnleggende menneskerettigheter. I 2018 var vi vitne til en kraftig forverring av den humanitære situasjonen i Palestina.

Palestina består av to områder, Vestbredden, inkludert Øst-Jerusalem, og Gazastripen. Områdene er under israelsk kontroll, og innbyggerne blir nektet grunnleggende menneskerettigheter.

Fattigdom, arbeidsledighet og matmangel har økt i Gaza, hvor befolkningen lider under en blokade som fører til at de har ekstremt begrenset tilgang til varer og tjenester og liten eller ingen mulighet til å bevege seg utenfor området. Det har også vært en markant økning i palestinske dødsfall som følge av demonstrasjonene under Den store returmarsjen. Majoriteten av de to millioner menneskene i Gaza er avhengige av en stadig minskende internasjonal nødhjelp.

I område C på Vestbredden og i Øst-Jerusalem fører økt bosetting, ødeleggelse og konfiskering av palestinsk eiendom samt tvangsutkastelser til økt press på sårbare palestinske samfunn, inkludert beduinflyktninger som risikerer å bli tvangsutkastet fra hjemmene sine.

I Øst-Jerusalem er om lag en tredel av de 330.000 palestinske innbyggerne i fare for å bli isolert fra byen. Årsaken er forsøk på å tilpasse lover som vil kunne endre Jerusalem sine grenser. Denne lovgivningen kan også føre til at bosetningsområder blir inkludert i Jerusalem.

Så mange fikk hjelp i Palestina i 2018

37.867

mennesker fikk utdanning

1.336

mennesker fikk husly

154

mennesker fikk hjelp gjennom leirdrift

28.580

mennesker fikk rettshjelp

718

mennesker fikk vann og sanitærtjenester

Flyktninghjelpens arbeid

Vi beskytter og bistår palestinerne på flukt eller som risikerer å måtte flykte, i Gaza og på Vestbredden, inkludert i Øst-Jerusalem.

Vi gir juridisk rådgivning for å fremme menneskerettigheter, og vi sørger for husly, rent vann, sanitæranlegg og utdanning til palestinere. Vi støtter tilgang til kvalitetsutdanning, og hjelper samfunn med å forberede seg og respondere på kriser.

Vi er forkjempere for rettighetene til palestinere på flukt nasjonalt og globalt.

Les om vårt arbeid i Palestina på våre engelske nettsider.

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Perspektiv

2020

Nyttårsønsker

$Jumana Murad, 47, in her bare rented apartment. In just over seven years, Jumana, who lives in Al Shati refugee camp near Gaza City, lost four of her children. Juliana died at age 17 in 2012 after she accidentally took the wrong medication for a severe stomach ache. Just over a year later, Lina, 14 at the time, died when she fell from the fourth floor of a building. Jumana says her son, Qusai, inhaled smoke from Israeli shells fired during the first major round of hostilities, which ran from December 2008 to January 2009, and developed respiratory problems that contributed to his death in 2014 at age 6. This year, Jumana grieved the loss of her 19-year-old daughter, Jasmin, who died from complications of kidney failure. Medical bills have left the family in debt. All told, the family owes 2,900 NIS (US$825) for groceries, prescriptions, and rent. Unpaid promissory notes to landlords have landed Jumana’s husband, Adel, a tailor by profession, in prison since July 2018. After losing his job at a factory in Israel, he worked as a cleaner in Gaza until health problems resulted in too many absences and he was let go. According to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, some 2,000 households faced the risk of eviction in 2018 over inability to pay rent. As of August this year, the Ministry of Social Development pegged the number of families under eviction risk at 9,356. Evictions have become routine for Jumana and her family over the past two years. They have found themselves often sleeping on the street or at the port several times. “When we were in the tent in the street, we felt very embarrassed whenever people walked past us,” said Jumana. “We tried to cover ourselves with plastic and carton sheets. We did not have water, so we could not shower, and our poor personal hygiene caused us skin problems.” While in the tent and on the street, the family relied on the owner of a nearby restaurant and goodwill from other people for food. Jumana’s boys also scavenged the local market for leftovers near spoiled vegetables to complement their diet of bread and tea. All five of Jumana’s surviving children dropped out of school because of the number of times they have been forced to move after getting evicted from their home, as well as lack of funds for school fees, uniforms, and transportation. Ali and Mohammad, 15, completed first grade only; their siblings Jenin, 17, and Saed, 16, made it to second grade, and Diana graduated from fifth grade. The family receives 1,600 NIS (US$453) in cash assistance from the Ministry of Social Development every three months, which are often delayed or incomplete, and UNRWA food vouchers, but often uses them to repay grocery debts. In fact, more than half of the households surveyed by NRC resorted to selling the assistance received. Since May, Jumana’s family has received cash-for-rent from NRC, as part of a project funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support 280 vulnerable households to stave off the threat of eviction. “We are terrified of living on the street after the cash-for-rent assistance from NRC finishes,” said Jumana. “We always think about what we are going to do after the end of the project. I dream about having one room for myself one day.” The loss of the children, “one after the other," as Jumana says, has taken its toll, physically and psychologically, on the surviving family members. Adel, and Jumana’s oldest son, Ali, both have psychological problems and require expensive prescriptions. Ali, was only 15 when he had witnessed his sister plummet to her death. A four-month stint in a psychiatric hospital barely scratched the surface, and he increasingly turned to drugs and crime. Now 21, he has been serving a seven-year sentence for numerous robbery convictions since 2017. While the prison has granted Ali furlough on weekends, he has used the time, together with his family, to participate in the Great March of Return mass protests on Fridays along Gaza’s perimeter fence with Israel. Without hope or prospects for the future, Jumana says they take advantage of the free transportation to attend the demonstrations for a sense of stress release from their daily lives. Unfortunately, Ali, his sister and father were unable to escape injury. Ali was shot twice in the leg, in separate incidents in 2018, sustaining serious nerve and artery damage. His latest injury occurred in January this year, when a rubber-coated steel bullet fractured his nose. Diana, 18, sustained shrapnel wounds to her left arm and thigh in 2018. In March this year, a tear gas canister struck her in the right shoulder. While Diana’s father looked for her amid the crowds, he fell to the ground with a bullet wound to the leg. Complications arising from diabetes and kidney problems have stalled his recovery. Photo taken on 21 August 2019 Photo: Ahmed Mashharawi/NRC$