The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: health
Mar 6, 2026
2020.12.11: MRSCP END OF YEAR APPEAL
As 2020 comes to a close, we are writing to ask for your end-of-year contribution…
2020.12.03 Update: Rep. Mark Pocan Virtual Town Hall on Palestine
Please thank Rep. Pocan for participating in the town hall and for being a champion…
Landmark Endorsement of Rep. Joaquin Castro for House Chair
Over 50 progressive organizations endorse Rep. Joaquin Castro for Chair of the House Foreign Affairs…
Rep. Mark Pocan on Gaza COVID-19 increase
Last month, Gaza experienced an 84% increase in COVID-19 cases. You know what would help…
2020.09.12: UNRWA USA’S Virtual Gaza 5K & Art Auction
Announcing the First-Ever Nationwide Virtual Gaza 5K + Digital Festival Art Auction! Everyone’s mental health…
Israel Bans Fuel Entry to Gaza
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Ref: 75/2020, 17 August 2020
8-month-old baby with heart problems needed to exit Gaza
Celine Jaber, Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), August 16, 2020 Dear friends, A…
IOF Tightens Gaza Strip Closure
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Ref: 72/2020, 13 August 2020
Israel demolishes Palestinian coronavirus testing centre
Akram Al-Waara and Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Middle East Eye, 21 July 2020
2020.06.15-21: Fundraising for Mrs. Najah’s Kitchen & Gaza Emergency Meals
Rebuilding Alliance GlobalGiving’s World Refugee Week Campaign is starting Monday, June 15th, at 9am Eastern…
Palestine 2020 Series: Water as a Public Health Issue
Nidal Al-Azraq & Zena Agha on Water as a Public Health Issue Palestine Under COVID-19…
COVID-19 and Human Rights – 2013 Laureate Raji Sourani
“Governments must put human rights and dignity at the centre” Raji Sourani, The Right Livelihood…
Second Appeal in the COVID-19 Crisis
Ref: 36/2020 Date: 14 April 2020 Time: 10:00 GMT Second Appeal in COVID-19 Crisis…
Tarek Abuata: Human Rights in Palestine During the Pandemic
Recorded on WORT 89.9 FM A Public Affair with host Esty Dinur: WORT website •…
Coronavirus and Gaza
DONATE! Here are three good options for sending medical relief to Palestine and Gaza: Rebuilding…
Palestinians report 1st cases of coronavirus in Gaza Strip
Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the main…
Help Palestinians in Gaza survive Coronavirus
If Not Now, March 20,2020 We have an opportunity to save thousands of lives —…
Coronavirus Is a Death Sentence for Palestinians Caged in Gaza
Even a small outbreak among Gaza’s densely-packed, blockaded population would put an impossible strain on…
New Rafah School Water Filter Donation Premium
Available for a limited time! Can you help put us over the top? Dear Friends,…
Final 2019 Appeal — Clean Water for Kids
Best Photos of 2019 from MECA We are now more than halfway to providing another…
Gaza 2020: How easy it is for the world to delete Palestinian pain
David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 13 December 2019
Netanyahu’s Real Crimes
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 After years of investigation and…
Polluted Water is the Leading Cause of Child Mortality in Gaza
With 43 Olympic swimming pools of sewage flowing from Gaza daily, local epidemic is only…
The Ecological War on Gaza
Rob Goyanes, Jewish Currents, September 9, 2019
Gaza’s Little Chef
Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, We Are Not Numbers, May 20, 2019 “I want to be one…
MECA 2018 Annual Report
MECA 2018 Annual Report by Middle East Children’s Alliance on Scribd
Death of Detainee Fares Baroud: An Example of Deliberate Negligence
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Ref: 16/2019, February 7, 2019
2018.11.15: Updates on Gaza’s Water Crisis
A Public Affair, November 15, 2018 On today’s episode, we take a look at the…
The health system in Gaza cannot handle another war
Amjad Yaghi, +972 Magazine, November 13, 2018
Gaza’s drinking water spurs blue baby syndrome, serious illnesses
Sandy Tolan, Al Jazeera, 29 Oct 2018
How can Gaza’s contaminated water catastrophe be solved?
Sandy Tolan, Al Jazeera, 30 Oct 2018
2018.11.20: Fundraiser: ‘Clean Water for the Children of Gaza’
First Unitarian Society 900 University Bay Drive Madison 7:00 pm Help provide a Maia Project…
Medical Personnel Under Fire
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Aug 30, 2018
Democracy Now’s Yemen Report
Just Foreign Policy, July 19, 2018 This morning, Democracy Now had a hard-hitting report on…
Profile of Um Hassan from Al-Masara Village
Josie Shields-Stromsness, Middle East Children’s Alliance, Apr 12, 2018
Restoring U.S. Aid Crucial to Avoid Gaza Water Catastrophe
Matthias Schmale, IPS – Inter Press Service, March 27, 2018
Between life and death: a permit
PCHR, February 28, 2018
Book talk: “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom”
with Norman Finkelstein Monday, March 12, 2018 12:00 p.m CDT Livestream Here The Gaza Strip…
Gaza’s health system close to collapse as electricity crisis threatens total blackout
World Health Organization warns hospitals could be plunged into darkness by end of February without…
Last Month for Gaza Lights!
Our campaign to provide 50 “Gaza Lights” systems to families in Rafah is into its…
Help Us Respond to Gaza’s Electricity Crisis
Amal and the Sketch Engineering Team assemble Gaza Lights systems Gaza Lights for Rafah Campaign…
Gaza Lights Campaign
MRSCP, Jul 19, 2017
Gaza Unlocked
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), July 12, 2017
Atfaluna Society: Help 10 Deaf, Needy Children from Gaza
We have received an appeal for help from the Atfaluna School for the Deaf in…
Gaza’s Kids Need Your Help
Rafah Children in the Samira Project at the Rachel Corrie Memorial Library. (Photo: Jeff Bright)…
A letter from Gaza to the Natives of Standing Rock
Israa Suliman, WE ARE NOT NUMBERS, November 15, 2016 Dear Native Americans, Although we are…
Keep Gaza Children Warm
Anees Mansour, gofundme, November 5, 2016 We are about to enter the winter season in…
A special appeal from our friend Anees Mansour in Rafah
The Hope and Peace Foundation has now been providing services for Rafah children for one…
Gaza’s plight matters to the world
At Erez, the Israeli-controlled crossing into Gaza, I passed through chutes that resembled the herding…
Child Psychological Support by Anees Mansour
Hello from Gaza. My name is Anees Mansour, one of a group of volunteers working…
Fighting Israel with a camera and a stethoscope
Raymond Deane, The Electronic Intifada, 31 July 2015
THE GAZA STRIP: The Humanitarian Impact of the Blockade
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), July 2015
Gaza patients stranded at Egypt’s border
Charlotte Silver, The Electronic Intifada, 18 June 2015
2015.03.15: Rafah Filmmaker Fida Qishta at First United Methodist Church
(See Funding Campaign for Filmmaker Fida Qishta) Sunday, March 15 First United Methodist Church Fellowship…
2015.03.13: Rafah Filmmaker Fida Qishta at the Memorial Union
Friday March 13 Memorial Union UW-Madison Campus 6:30 pm [Map] Gaza film-maker Fida Qishta will…
Israel bans Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert from Gaza
BBC News, 14 November 2014
Palestinians in Gaza are still waiting for the siege to end
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 10 September 2014
An open letter for the people in Gaza
The Lancet, Volume 384, No. 9941, p397–398, 2 August 2014
Rafah Prep School Water Filter
Girls Preparatory School A, Rafah A gift from the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project and others,…
An Ongoing Terror
Michele Bahl, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, November 14, 2012 Yesterday we visited the Gaza Community…
VOICES OF CONSCIENCE: DELEGATION to THE GAZA STRIP
Interfaith Peace-Builders, November 5, 2012 November 5, 2012 – Interfaith Peace-Builders (IFPB) is pleased to…
2012.04.12: Eyes In Gaza: A Presentation by Dr. Mads Gilbert
“What We Saw, What We Can Do” April 12, 2012, 7:00 pm 180 Science Hall,…
TURN ON THE LOVE
Children at the Tuyar Al-Jena Kindergarten in Rafah turn on the tap Here in Wisconsin…
2010.03.21: Building Hope for the Children
Commemorating the life of Rachel Corrie Sunday, March 21 Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist…
2010.01.12: Gaza one year on: Operation Cast Lead and the Goldstone Report
United Nations Association of Dane County Speaker: Jennifer Loewenstein Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:00 PM…
Ahmad Abu Salama Surgery
Gaza boy needs specialized medical treatment abroad The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) is bringing…
Israel accused of rationing water to Palestinians
Patrick Moser, Agence France Presse, Oct 27, 2009 JERUSALEM (AFP) – Amnesty International on Tuesday…
2009.04.05-07: Israel-Palestine from Bush to Obama: Health, Human Rights and Foreign Policy
The University of Wisconsin – Madison Middle East Studies Program April Lecture Series Prof. Noam…
2008.04.06-27: O-LIVE! O-LIVE! Events to benefit Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem
O-LIVE! O-LIVE! Silent art auction and other events to benefit Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem. Location:…
A Playground for Jenin!
Playgrounds for Palestine – Madison 2008 Project: A Playground for Jenin! PfP-Madison is excited to…
People I Love Are Dying
Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, 03 March 08 People I know and love are…
Summit’s Goal: Perpetuate Repression of Palestinians
Barb Olson, The Capital Times, December 07, 2007 “After meeting their own low expectations for…
