Interpal

Introducing Hanan! Our Autumn/Winter 2016 intern.

Hi there! My name is Hanan, and I am a high school student from Sweden. Originally my family are from Somalia, and my grandfather is Yemeni, so I guess you could say we travel a lot! I am 19 years old and am studying international social sciences back at school…

Introducing…Tudja, our Autumn/Winter 2016 intern!

Hey! My name is Tudja and I’m 18 years old, I travelled to the U.K. last week to begin an internship with Interpal, a humanitarian aid agency that focuses on the human rights of Palestinians and Palestinian refugees. I will be working at Interpal for two weeks, starting off in…

A Chance to Live

In Gaza, the colour red is all too familiar. When collective punishment is indiscriminate, both the young and old are harmed. The injuries sustained routinely go beyond physical damage into lasting memories of trauma. Doctors are trained to operate on broken bones, but you cannot attach splints and casts to…

Back to School 2016 in Lebanon

As kids around the world prepared for the start of the 2016 school year, our team in the Lebanon Field Office were hard at work distributing schoolbags, tuition fees and supplies to families and teachers to help ease the burden at this time of year.

#NationalPoetryDay – ‘Travel Tickets’, Samih al-Qasim

To mark #NationalPoetryDay we celebrated Palestinian poets at home and in the diaspora. Who is your favourite?