OUR HEALTHCARE PROJECTS

HEALTHCARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Embrace works in regions across the Middle East to ensure high-quality healthcare is available to those from all backgrounds and walks of life. Embrace’s work in healthcare ranges from training programmes to ensure the availability of well-trained healthcare professionals, to the funding of mobile medical clinics so that medical assistance is accessible to those living in rural and remote areas.

LATEST UPDATES FROM OUR HEALTHCARE PROJECTS

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Serving Gaza’s children against all odds
Serving Gaza’s children against all odds

The Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre satellite unit, based at Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City and supported by Embrace, is continuing to provide rehabilitation services for children with chronic conditions and post-trauma injuries.

Healing the trauma of child-detention in the West Bank
Healing the trauma of child-detention in the West Bank

Experiencing arrest and imprisonment by the Israeli authorities has left many children and young people across the West Bank with profound psychological wounds. Embrace supports a Rehabilitation Programme run by East Jerusalem YMCA, providing psychological support and vocational training to help ex-detainees find hope, purpose, and a path forward. Embrace’s David McColl recently visited... 

Steadfast service continues at Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital and clinic
Steadfast service continues at Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital and clinic

Al Ahli Hospital has been a beacon of light amid the devastation in Gaza, with dedicated medical staff serving patients in great need – despite severe shortages of medicine and equipment. As a fragile ceasefire takes hold, its role will continue to be pivotal as it responds to an enormous volume of medical needs. In this blog, we take a look back at the steadfast service at Al Ahli’s hospital and clinic over the past 15 months.

PERSONAL STORIES FROM OUR HEALTHCARE PROJECTS

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Childhood Behind Bars: The high-school student pulled from his bed by soldiers
Childhood Behind Bars: The high-school student pulled from his bed by soldiers

Navid was fast asleep when the Israeli soldiers came for him. It was late at night and the 17-year-old high school student was in his bedroom when the soldiers burst into his home, beat him, and didn’t allow his family to say goodbye when they arrested him and took him out into the night. 

Childhood Behind Bars: The football-mad teen arrested at his local playground
Childhood Behind Bars: The football-mad teen arrested at his local playground

The day that 14-year-old Amir was arrested started out like any other. He was spending time at the local playground with one of his close friends, next to the football pitch where they both loved to kick a ball around. 

Childhood Behind Bars: The 16 year old who lost 18 months of his childhood
Childhood Behind Bars: The 16 year old who lost 18 months of his childhood

The night 16-year-old Bilal was arrested, he’d gone to the local shop. On his way there, he was ambushed by a group of undercover Israeli soldiers. They covered his head, handcuffed him and began beating him on the spot. He was then thrown into a military vehicle, where the beating continued all the way to the interrogation centre in Israel.