Health and testimony for palestinian women and refugees in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel | Medici per i Diritti Umani

Health and testimony for palestinian women and refugees in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel

The project has the overall objectives of health care, prevention and safeguarding of the right to health of Palestinian women and children and refugees in West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel; training of Palestinian medical staff; testimony, with a particular focus on the women’s health.

Moreover, the intervention supports the activities of the open clinic for woman’s health in the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, whose beneficiaries are foreign women who have no access to health care services, above all African refugees and Palestinian women living in Israel to whom the juridical status is not recognized in the country and as a consequence they cannot have access to the public national health system.
The purpose is to promote a cooperation process and a dialogue among Paletinian and Israeli health workers.
Through these actions, the project aims to sustain the Palestinian health system and at the same time to reduce the barriers between the two populations, expressing concrete solidarity, denouncing the policies which are preventing the correct functioning of the health system and the access to ehalth care, through the involvement of Israeli cityzens to make a  change.
The project foresees the partnership with an Israeli ngo (Physicians for Human Rights Israel – PHR Israel) e and  a Palestinian ngo (Palestinian Medical Relief Society – PMRS). The two organizations have been cooperating for years and they developed important expertise in the safeguard of Human Rights and in the promotion of a process of dialogue in areas of conflicts.
This project aims to develop a systemic approach of the international cooperation actions where health issues are linked to human rights and peace values. The intervention is moreover oriented to promote women empowerment both in methodology and in trainings on health and fundamental rights issues.

Activities 
• Specialistic mobile clinics;
• Open Clinic for women health;
• Mobile clinics for women health;
• Realization of meetings for promoting health’s rights and fundamental rights;
•Trainings on the job for young Palestinian doctors in gynaecology and pediatrics;
• Realization of activities of advocacy to promote health’s right of the Palestinian population.

Project summary

Name of the project

Health and testimony for palestinian women and refugees in the occupied palestinian teritories and israel

Type of intervention

Health care services for Palestinian women and children and refugees

Target groups

Palestinian women and children from the villages of the intervention area in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; Palestinian doctors; undocumented migrants living in Israel.

Intervention Area

Cisgiordania (Distretti di Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin e Ramallah) – Israele (Città di Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

Partner

Physicians for Human Rights Israel and Palestinian Medical Relief Society

Period

Since 2013 (ongoing)

Cofinanced by:

8 per mille Chiesa Valdese; Regione Toscana

How to become a volunteer

Write to:

Teresa Leone, responsible for international projects

Description of activity

It is possible to send the application to become a volunteer in Italy in order to give support for the ordinary tasks of the international desk, in particular being involved in the management of the activities of the projects. At the moment there is no possibility to do an experience as volunteer abroad.

News from the project

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9 October 2023

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