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Update 10th July

Last week we had the amazing news that in spite of the forced displacement of 250,000 Palestinian people, from the east and south east of Khan Younis county to the city of Khan Younis, including some members of our emergency relief team, they resumed work.

Hot meals which were given to 194 families (one or two per family, depending on the size) in Khan Younis mostly to displaced families, some have been displaced for 7 times so far.

We have been assured by our team that this was very much needed especially when Khan Younis was subjected to extremely difficult circumstances over start of July.

In addition:

• 82 families , including 45 in the NORTH where the need is extremely high, received food parcels/cash. Total so far 5309 families.
• The team secured 50 nappies’ parcels which were delivered to families with young toddlers.
• The team continued to provide drinking water to the tanks which were provided in 15 points around Khan Younis county.
• Never Stop Dreaming/Qayis centre for Psychological and community support provided the sixth entertainment session at a Shelter school in Maen area, between Khan You is and Rafah.

This wouldn’t have been possible without your ongoing generous support. Thank you.

Update 17th June

With your kind and generous help, Sheffield Gaza Relief Fund managed during the last two weeks to support 230 families with food parcels/Cash. (Very impressively 5033 families so far ).

Also activists in Qayis centre for Psychological and community support continue to provide entertainment sessions to hundreds of traumatised children.

We are also pleased to be able to inform you that the team provided cash support to the families of the three fishermen who were killed by the Israeli navy while trying to fish for their families, three days ago in Khan Younis. The families of : Abdul Motti El Habeel; his son Ramy and Ahmad Bakkir; all from the beach camp in Gaza city all forced to move 5 times by the Israeli army.

We are also continuing to support communities in different neighbourhoods with very much needed water.

SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY

Update 7th June

72 families received our support this week (Total 4803 families).

Also, two more 2 m2 water tanks were provided in the Khan Younis area where hundreds of thousands fled to from Rafah.

The humanitarian conditions are getting more desperate since the Israeli occupation/Closure of Rafah crossing.
Your support is vital for us to continue with our effort to support the Palestinians when they are facing genocide.

Update 10th May

Two more tents were provided by the team for displaced people to n Khan Younis and Al Zawaida areas.

Also Hygiene parcels are being delivered to 10’s of families. This is extremely needed with insects in the approaching summer making life very difficult for families in tented camps in Al Mawasy in Rafah and Khan Younis.

The team is also working on a very important and extremely needed project initiative: provision of water tanks in different neighbourhoods to support families . The water tanks are different sizes; 1m’3 to 5m’3. Hopefully the team will get the local municipalities to look after supplying water to these tanks.

A further 53 families which received nappies from Sheffield relief fund which brings the total so far to 4524 families helped by the Emergency Relief Fund.

Update 28th April

We are very pleased to report that at last I managed to contact the team from our partners “Never Stop Dreaming ” children centre in Khan Younis.

We are working with them resuming the children’s mobile unit activity to provide recreational and psychological support to children in the tented refugee camps in Rafah and Khan Younis.

Meanwhile a further 106 families received our Relief Fund support last week which brings the total so far to 4364 families.

Your support is still very vital and appreciated.

Update 23rd April

In the past few days the team has provided additional support for 84 families. They also managed to provide 60 families in the NORTH OF THE GAZA STRIP with 60 kgs of pure honey for their children.

This bring the total number of families who received our support so far to 4258.

Also we have provided tents for a number of families who have been forced to evacuate their homes or whose houses have been burnt down. or destroyed by bombs.

Update 10th April

In the past three days we have helped a further 95 families. This brings the total number of families who received our support to 4026.

This photo is on completion of building another tent, 3.7mx5.0m, for the El Jakhbeer family (22 members) who were forcefully evacuated from Khan Younis’s camp to Al Mawasy on Khan Younis beach.

Thanks once again for your solidarity.

Update 2nd April

We are very pleased to report that the team in Khan Younis and Rafah have resumed delivery of food parcels.

85 additional families have now received cash and parcels. This brings the total number so far for families who received our support ( Food parcels, blankets, clothes, baby milk powder, Nappies and cash) to 3931 families.

We can also report that since the Emergency Fund started, £130K has been transferred to Gaza. A magnificent show of solidarity. Thank you to all our supporters for enabling Palestinian people to keep their dignity and humanity when facing a genocide.

Update 30th March

Update 27th March

Photos of another tent which was built by the team in Deir El Balah for Mr Osama El Dirdasawy’s family.

A further 73 families who received our cash support in Rafah and Khan Younis.

We have also allocated 500 food parcels for our fantastic and courageous team. All being well ; we will resume distribution of food parcels from next week. Thanks for your message ongoing support.

Update March 16th

72 families received the Sheffield Relief fund during the last four days.

This brings the total number of families who received our support, either cash or food parcels, to 3172.

The total number of families who received blankets, clothes, powdered milk and nappies to 420.

The team also started to provide colouring books to children in makeshift tented camps; a very impressive initiative.

Once again I would like to reiterate that we wouldn’t have been able to do this extremely needed support without your generous help. SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY.

Update March 7th

We should be so proud of the work of our team on the ground in Khan Younis and Rafah. They managed to buy a supply of powdered milk and nappies ( this is an extremely difficult task. Please note that the preparation of the parcels and some of the deliveries are done inside a makeshift tent. All members of the team live in tents presently.

26 families have been provided with powdered milk and nappies and 45 more families who received our cash support.

This brings the total number of families which received support from our relief fund to 3100 families.

Update February 26th

Our team on the ground continues to help with supporting families with materials to build makeshift shelters ( plastic sheeting and insulation.

Their new initiative is to build two shelters completely (All materials needed and construction) for two displaced families

• a family of 9 who had their house destroyed in Deir El Balah
• a widow with 5 children who had her house destroyed and her husband killed by Israeli brothers bombing;

Following this , they will continue with other families. Other families, so far 149, have received cash, since support from the Emergency Fund has been resumed.

This increases the total number of families supported by our relief fund to 2911 families.

Update February 15th

After a period of difficulty transferring money we sent $3000 as a pilot.
We have been told this has arrived and have received a message from the team that they are preparing lists in Al Mawasy ( which had tens of thousands of internal refugees) and Rafah as follows:

• Families of 4 members will receive : 100 IS (£23)
• 6 members: 150 IS. (£35)
• Over 6 members: 200 IS (£46)

This is an alternative to food parcels as the wholesalers who were helping had their two warehouses bombed ; they were forced to evacuate from Khan Younis to Rafah.

We have asked the team to allocate some of the money to buying powdered milk and blankets. Unfortunately nappies are extremely expensive , 130 IS /per pack of 30.

We will be transferring more money to different members of the team to shortly.

Update January 3rd

So far, we have provided 2409 food parcels to families since the start of the Israeli onslaught.

Also, the team delivered 40 packages to enable families in tents to seal their tents in Abu Daqqa land near the European hospital (between Rafah and Khan Younis).

Each package contains strong plastic sheeting (5m long 2.4m wide) and 8m long ng2m wide insulation sheeting material.

Your ongoing support is crucial to ensure we can help Palestinian people resist the Israeli war crimes.

Update December 26th

62 food parcels distributed to displaced families in Rafah and Khan Younis. Also 78 parcels distributed to families through our rep’s Zuhair Yahia, Ahmad Abu Moustafa in Khan Younis and Shadi Al Fajim who is now in Al Sawafi area in Rafah. This totals 140 food parcels in the last 10 days. This means that we provided 2256 food parcels to families since the start of the Israeli onslaught.

The circumstances of distribution continue to be very difficult as the Israel ‘Defence’ Force have forced people out of the Khan Younis area. Please continue your support

Update December 17th

Despite the horrific attack on Khan Younis area, the team managed during the last 10 days to distribute :

144 food parcels around Khan Younis county for displaced families; please see the lists below this brings the number of families who received our food parcels so far is 2116 .

winter clothes to more children and women bringing the number of children who receive our package to 216 and 85 women.

In the photo of the three children wearing their new coats, the boy on the left lost his parents , brothers and sisters and was the only survivor of the Israeli bombing of his family house; yet he is smiling.

Please keep your efforts to help us support people on the ground on the Gaza Strip who are being subjected to a barbaric vicious genocidal attack by the Zionists. Here is the team doing the amazing work:

Update December 2nd

In spite of the intensive horrific and large scale bombing of Khan Younis today the team managed to distribute clothes for 100 children as follows:

Prices of food in Gaza are now extremely high. The work Musheir has done on the ground has enabled volunteers to access supplies and so far 1831 families have had parcels of food or blankets or clothes.

• 30 families sheltering in Khan Younis
• A further 150 food parcels were distributed as well as 40 blankets since my last report
• 75 for the small community of fishermen and women who are from The Beach, a camp and sheltering in Khan Younis.

The team on the ground deserves our utmost respect and appreciation

UPDATE November 20th:

Prices of food in Gaza are now extremely high. The work Musheir has done on the ground has enabled volunteers to access supplies and so far 1831 families have had parcels of food or blankets or clothes.

Every £400 pounds raised will feed 1000 people with rice and lentils.

Initial report on November 4th

One week after the war on Gaza started, Musheir -El Farra, chair of Sheffield PSC and his son Qasem, had managed to build a network of contacts to ensure they could distribute essentials for displaced people.

In between documenting the terrible damage to families and the place around them, these two brave Sheffielders set to work in order to make sure the funds you raised were put to good use.

Below are a series of entries from whatsapp messages Musheir sent us since October 13th.

On the night of 22nd October, Musheir’s cousins were killed by F16 air strikes. A terrible and exhausting night. But he continued to provide support the following day.

In all at least 747 families have been helped .

We copy all of his messages below for transparency. (Some detail has been removed for confidentiality)

Thank you Sheffield!