Lifelines: Aid Workers in Gaza is a short film offering a poignant glimpse into the experiences of aid workers in Gaza during late 2024. It follows Firas and Serena, two members of the American Friends Service Committee, as they deliver crucial humanitarian relief to Palestinians displaced by ongoing Israeli military attacks. Despite enduring displacement themselves and suffering the loss of numerous family members and loved ones, AFSC staff in Gaza have managed to provide lifesaving aid to over 1.5 million internally displaced people.
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Articles written by American Friends Service Committee staff in Gaza
1. Our Bodies Can No Longer Hold Us. Written by AFSC staff member Serena (11 April 2025).
“Since March 2, Israel has prevented all aid from entering Gaza. This is the longest period that humanitarian aid has been blocked from reaching its population of more than 2 million Palestinians since October 2023. Israel has also resumed its bombardments and ground offensive across Gaza.With no aid being allowed in, supplies of food, water, medicine, and other essentials are dwindling. People are on the brink of starvation. AFSC’s staff in Gaza are among the many whose lives are at risk…”
2. Planting Seeds of Sovereignty in Gaza. Written by Yousef M. Aljamal, Gaza Coordinator, Palestine Activism Program, AFSC. Published on The Electronic Intifada website (22 October 2024).
“Food sovereignty is a matter of life and death in Gaza, where Israel has been deliberately destroying Palestinians’ ability to sustain themselves. For Yousef Abu Rabee, from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, farming ran in his blood. He had been doing it from a very young age, the 24-year-old said with pride when interviewed by The Electronic Intifada in September…”