Despite the ongoing war and critical challenges of displacement and siege, SDF’s Youth Network (SYN) is determined to lead impactful actions that foster youth engagement and resilience. Recently, SYN launched the “Girls’ Tent” initiative, targeting displaced girls and women in northern Gaza. This initiative is one of the thematic interventions under SDF’s national relief response […]
Ghadir Al-Wadiya has been displaced to Deir Al-Balah for about three months, starting a new chapter of forcible displacements under evacuation orders, following the Israeli Occupational Forces (IOF) threats to invade Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where she had taken shelter with her family due to the ongoing genocidal war. Ghadir is a 35-year-old […]
The Social Developmental Forum (SDF) launched two safe learning spaces in the middle area of the Gaza Strip within the project of Youth Networks Collaborating Towards Enhanced Educational and Well-being Opportunities for Children and Adolescents, supported by UNICEF and implemented in partnership with the Youth Advisory Panel (YAP). The first SLS was launched in “Together […]
It is called “Al-Okhowa” displacement camp; a barre-waste land, where the sunbeams relentlessly burn everything. It is located in Al-Zawaida, near the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. A makeshift tent out there has become home to Ola Al-Mobayed, 27 years old, along with her husband and their two-year-old son. The […]
Arafat Rabah Youssef Abu Asr is a 60-year-old Palestinian elderly. He has been displaced for months, forcibly moving between shelters, tarpaulins, and scorching makeshift tents. He is originally from Jabalia in northern Gaza, where his journey of displacement began when he fled to Al Safatwi area, then to Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza. His family […]
Emad is a Palestinian 60-year-old man. He lives in a shelter tent in Al-Bokhari Camp in Deir Al-Balah, the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip along with his father, his 4 brothers, their siblings, grandchildren, and other relatives. They have endured their repetitive waves of displacements together. Joha and his family have fled more than […]
Hossam Mohamed Al-Amsi is a 42-year-old Palestinian from Gaza. He lives, along with his wife and five children in a shelter tent at Al Tawba Camp in Deir Al-Balah, in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip, where they have been enduring harsh conditions, including extreme heat and the inconvenience of biting insects around. Hossam […]
The Social Developmental Forum (SDF) distributed hundreds of non-perishable food parcels to displaced families across the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. This distribution cycle is part of a relief project aimed at enhancing access to food assistance for Palestinians affected by the ongoing Israeli aggression. This project was launched in partnership with the Norwegian […]
Deir Al-Balah, Middle Area, Gaza Strip A makeshift tent in a displacement center in Deir Al-Balah, in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. This is where Amany AbedAlrahman lives with her siblings after a dramatic journey of forcible displacement to different places since last November until it ended up in this tent upon invasion […]
Waseem Ahmed Abu Daghim is a 26-year-old young person with a disability. He lives in Deir al-Balah City in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. As a result of an injury in an unfortunate traffic accident, he has been suffering from a physical disability for over ten years that left him with a permanent […]
