Al-Wafa campaign to launch relief convoy for Palestinian refugees

The European al-Wafa campaign declared its intention to organize a new campaign to extend relief materials to Palestinian refugees in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey as winter takes its toll.

Head of the European Campaign Amin Abu Rashid clarified that “Together for Warm Winter Campaign” is a humanitarian relief convoy set up to help providing humanitarian emergency assistance to Palestinian refugees who are deprived from their basic human needs in the current cold weather.

The campaign relief aids are expected to be distributed in four main countries due to the poor and difficult living conditions suffered by those forcibly displaced refugees, he added.

Abu Rashid called upon the international humanitarian institutions to contribute in the relief campaign in order to provide immediate assistance for the refugees.

Earlier, the European al-Wafa Campaign had organized a number of relief campaigns and sent several delegations to check on the living condition of the Palestinian refugees in an attempt to alleviate their suffering and plight.

In the same context, al-Wafa Campaign ended up its “dressing the wounds and re-housing the displaced” campaign which started early November aiming to restore the destroyed homes and to shelter the homeless in Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the Israeli summer attack.

In July 2014, Israeli forces launched a military operation against the Gaza Strip, which completely destroyed or partially damaged tens of thousands of residential buildings, in addition to massive damage to infrastructure in towns, villages, and refugee camps.

Around a quarter of a million Palestinians found themselves without shelter in an already overpopulated Gaza Strip, bursting with inhabitants; the majority of them refugees without the resources essential for life.