DanChurchAid
Israel/Palestine
"Mine action is a male dominated sector, but it doesn't have to be," declares Christina Bennike, the dynamic head of Danish charity DanChurchAid (DCA) in south Lebanon. "I really felt it would be important to address this from the beginning, then it would be natural instead of something different or unique."
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For 40 years Israel has built settlements on occupied territory, taken from Palestinian farmers. Half of Palestinians now live under the UN poverty line and the two-state solution is wearing thin.
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Life is slowly returning after the traumatic 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict last summer that left Lebanese villages bombed, roads destroyed and thousands injured and dead. DanChurchAid is currently clearing mines and unexploded ammunition in Lebanon and is right now engaged in four mine risk education events in Southern Lebanon.
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Going to the hospital for the first time is difficult enough without worrying about strikes by hospital workers. But the relatives of Yousef Abed Elatif Sedqee had to factor that in when they recently took the 7-year-old from the West Bank village of Megaer to the nearby clinic run by Augusta Victoria Hospital in the village of Turmus'ayya.
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The winter in the mountainous regions of South Lebanon is rapidly approaching. Though reconstruction is well under way after the 34 day war between the Israeli army and Hizbollah, people are in need of heaters and blankets.
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Among the greatest needs currently being expressed in villages in Lebanon are non-food relief items. DanChurchAid in Lebanon supports approx. 3,000 families with non food items and is also clearing mines and unexploded ammunition.
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One hundred days after the cease-fire that ended the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, many Lebanese villages are still without running water.
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The normally jammed-packed streets of Beirut during rush hour were even more frantic yesterday as residents scrambled immediately following the news that Christian politician Pierre Gemayel had been brutally gunned down in the streets of a Beirut suburb.
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Scan the faces of children gathered for a break outside Souane Elementary School and you see that life is slowly returning after the traumatic 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict that left Lebanese villages bombed, roads destroyed and thousands injured and dead. DanChurchAid is currently clearing mines and unexploded ammunition in Lebanon.
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The hidden fallout from conflict in Lebanon: For two hours, Mahmoud Yacoub sat disoriented in a field, waiting for help to come. The 36-year-old farmer had taken his herd of goats out at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon when he stepped on something that exploded. Bleeding and in pain, he made his way to a small shrub, where he sat and waited for rescue.
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DanChurchAid works with progressive forces within Israeli and Palestinian civil societies to reinforce democracy and respect for human rights, and to support efforts for sustainable peace and justice.
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DanChurchAid supports Palestinian NGOs in promoting the participation of Palestinian women in the development of a Palestinian society based on equal opportunities, universal principles of human rights and priciples enshrined in Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination.
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Muslims and Christians find bonds during the war between the Lebanese Hezbollah and Israeli forces. A million Lebanese fled the war zones to safer places in Lebanon. The majority of those who fled were Shia Muslims, many of whom received protection in Christian areas.
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DanChurchAid works with access to health care in Israel/Palestine. The right to access humanitarian aid and services is a human right that includes access to adequate and affordable primary health care. In the context of marginalisation of international humanitarian law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian population is effectively deprived of this right.
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DanChurchAid supports ACT member the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) in Beirut. MECC is cooperating closely with other NGOs and with the Lebanese authorities.
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