Palestine Red Crescent Society

Feature Stories

“Red Crescenters” in Al Yarmouk Refugee Camp Fight to Save Lives Under a Hail of Bullets

(Al Yarmouk refugee camp, April 8th 2015): For the eighth consecutive day, PRCS teams in Al Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus toiled to...

PRCS Home Enrichment Program at the Service of Cerebral Palsy Patients and Families

By: Raed El Nims Families of children with cerebral palsy in the Gaza Strip often feel helpless at being unable to provide the appropriate care...

Rawan Al Najjar: A New Beginning Filled With Hope

By: Ra’ed Al Nims It will be a long time before Rawan Al Najjar (10) forgets what happened on that horrendous day during the Israeli military incursion...

Gaza: discovering the work of the Red Crescent and the power of a shared passion

By Tommaso Della Longa – IFRC It could easily seem a paradise. If you look at Gaza through beautiful beaches, palms, sea shore, you really feel...

« I Want My Doll»

By : Raed Al Nims I approached her with my camera. All I wanted was to take a picture of her. But she cried and ran away quickly,...

A Mother and Her Four Children Saved At the Last Minute by PRCS

By: Ra’ed El Nims Rida Abou Assi (24) is a widow and head of a poverty-stricken family. When her husband passed away two years ago, she...

Mohamad Al Abadleh: Victim of the Disrespect of the IHL

By: Raed Al Nims PRCS’ volunteer Mohamad Ahmad Al Abadleh (28) did not know he was about to live a nightmare when a distress call came in to the...

Israel’s disrespect of the IHL claims the life of a PRCS’EMT

By Raed Al Nims PRCS’ Emergency Medial Technician (EMT) A’aed Al Bura’i (27) received a call at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday the 26th of...

When An Emergency Medical Technician’s (EMT) Home is Bombed

Raed el Nems “Kindly send an ambulance to the Mu’amar family home in Al Jneineh neighborhood”. The phone call dropped like a bombshell...

The call of Duty Is Paramount Despite Hardships

Saleh Mouamar is a volunteer at the PRCS’ Emergency Medical Services in Rafah (Gaza Strip). He is working alongside emergency medical technicians...

The Israeli occupation sows death and PRCS seeds life

Following a call to rescue a family whose home was bombarded on the 15th of November in Zu’rob neighborhood (South of Rafah, Gaza Strip), Mohamad...

Overcoming Disability: The Example of Hamza Al Kadi

Being mentally disabled did not prevent Hamza Al Kadi, a young man from Hebron (Southern West Bank) from living a normal life, finding a place in society...