They have raised more than £1,000 for a mobile dental clinic delivering frontline medical aid around the bombed out streets of Gaza. The clinic, which has been funded totally by the Church in Wales since 2000, is part of the work of family health centres in Gaza run by the Near East Council of Churches.
Members of the Young Muslim Community Organisation in Newport, South Wales, held a bazaar to raise money following an appeal by the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, for urgent aid for the work of the NECC clinics. The appeal was intensified after a direct missile attack destroyed one of the family centres in Shij’ia last month.
Ifthir Ahmed, chair of the YMCO, said the group was pleased to support a Welsh appeal for humanitarian aid.
He said, “We read about the destruction of the family clinic and the invaluable service the mobile dental clinic provides for so many people in the strip. We felt that some of the money we raised had to go to this very noble cause.
Let’s hope Hamas doesn’t steal this money. There are not many Christians left in Gaza, as they’ve been hounded out by Islamists.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/gazacrisis,0,hamas-steal-aid-as-israel-prepares-for-elections,73149?WTmc_id=rss_breitbart
It would seem that Hamas might be on the way out in Gaza, AZUSA. Contrary to those here who claim their support would only rise with the Israeli reprisals, their approval among Gazans is headed into Congressional levels. [url=http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_02_08-2009_02_14.shtml#1234407701]LINK[/url]
‘…their approval among Gazans is headed into Congressional levels’
So they’ll be returned, then?
What a pity there are some on this site who cannot accept any act of generosity or kindness without some kind of sniping. Please note, dear Azusa; whatever has happened to the Christians of Gaza, it is not the fault of the Welsh Muslims, whose initiative is to be lauded.
Terry,
I see this as equal to the US stating that we were going to end the famine in Ethopia and Haiti, so we sent freighters full of grain to those countries, counting on the good will of the governments to see that they distributed that grain to the starving populace. Instead the grain sat rotting in the harbor because one faction did not want the other to gain access to the ‘good will’ and show favoritism.
Or in another country (I’m trying to think, maybe Rwanda?) where the grain was distributed, but when the tribes who were not in favor with the ruling tribal warlords came to collect, the men were shot, and the women and children sold into slavery.
Or the recent earthquake damaged country where the leadership seized the food/medical aid sent in and sold it on the black market.
Hamas is much like these. They will make a big show of taking the aid, and then diverting it from the people into arms purchases, or fortifying bunkers, as they have done before.
Well said Terry, can’t you focus on the fact that people of differing faiths worked together to raise funds … it doesn’t matter what the funds were for, concentrate on the inter faith work between the young. After all they will grow up, hopefully, respecting each others faith.