Christmas Fundraiser for Palestinians

Medical Aid for Palestinians is a charity that helps provide the urgent and desperately-needed medical care and provisions for Palestinians suffering in Gaza (as well as helping in the West Bank). Let us remember that Jesus Christ himself was born in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, where I have visited a UN Refugee camp and witnessed first hand the pain that Palestinians carry with them daily.

Please donate so we can get more aid through to hospitals in Gaza to stop preventable deaths and heal those who have been wounded and need it most.

Please read this poem by Hiba Abu Nida, a young female Palestinian poet and teacher who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in 20th October 2023. 

Yesterday, a star said

to the little light in my heart,

We are not just transients

passing.

Do not die. Beneath this glow

some wanderers go on

walking.

You were first created out of love,

so carry nothing but love

to those who are trembling.

One day, all gardens sprouted

from our names, from what remained

of hearts yearning.

And since it came of age, this ancient language

has taught us how to heal others

with our longing,

how to be a heavenly scent

to relax their tightening lungs: a welcome sigh,

a gasp of oxygen.

Softly, we pass over wounds,

like purposeful gauze, a hint of relief,

an aspirin.

O little light in me, don’t die,

even if all the galaxies of the world

close in.

O little light in me, say:

Enter my heart in peace. 

All of you, come in!

Please let us donate so we honour the memory of her words; so that we respect the resilience of Palestinians suffering grievous injuries; and we help find respite for their pain in honour of the message of Christmas.