Caritas Jerusalem calls for immediate aid to victims of clashes

November 17, 2012: While fighting continues between Palestinians and Israelis, the director of Caritas Jerusalem is calling for immediate relief and ensure the continuation of ongoing projects, with particular attention to young and old.

"There is an urgent need of aid. Needed medicines, there are wounded to care for and rebuild houses. " Cosi Claudette Habesch, director of Caritas Jerusalem, describes the situation in Gaza on Friday. Meeting in Rome with the head of the Italian Caritas, Don Francesco Soddu, Ms. Habesch expressed deep concern about the increasing number of casualties and the prospect of more and more remote a cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis.

"Caritas Jerusalem - reiterated the director - still continue to work because there is understanding and dialogue. We are confident that justice will bring peace and peace will bring reconciliation. Our work is daily accompaniment of people who suffer and to give them hope. Giving hope is already a way to work for peace. "

Concretely Caritas Jerusalem plays a role in supporting programs with particular attention to young and old. In Ramallah, for example, there are many old people abandoned due to the increasing emigration of Christians to the West, mostly to the U.S., Canada, Australia. These people manage to survive thanks to the aid of Caritas, who affectionately call "our home".
Claudette Habesch finally wanted to send a positive message: "I am Palestinian, Christian and Arabic and will never cease to believe in and commit to dialogue and peaceful coexistence. The Church of Jerusalem is the Church of the Resurrection, and it is the responsibility of the Christian world continue to bear witness and to bring hope."