{"id":12047,"date":"2025-05-09T10:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedsjp.org.uk\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:10:49","slug":"9-may-how-can-we-support-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/2025\/05\/09\/9-may-how-can-we-support-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"9 May &#8211; How Can We Support Gaza?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<br><br>\n\n\n\n<strong>Practical Support, part of Pope Francis&#8217; Legacy<\/strong><br><br>One of Pope Francis\u2019s popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip, fulfilling one of his final wishes, the Vatican&#8217;s official media outlet said on Sunday.<br><br>The vehicle, used by the late pontiff during his 2014 visit to the Holy Land, is being outfitted with diagnostic and emergency medical equipment to help young patients in the Palestinian enclave, where health services have been devastated by the Israeli invasion.<br><br>Pope Francis, who died last month, entrusted the initiative to the Catholic aid organisation Caritas Jerusalem in the months before his death, Vatican News said. Peter Brune, Secretary General of Caritas Sweden, which is supporting the project, told Vatican News<br><br><blockquote>&#8220;This is a concrete, life-saving intervention at a time when the health system in Gaza has almost completely collapsed. It&#8217;s not just a vehicle. It&#8217;s a message that the world has not forgotten about the children in Gaza.&#8221;<br><br><\/blockquote>The mobile unit will be equipped with rapid infection tests, vaccines, diagnostic tools, and suture kits, and staffed by medical personnel. Caritas plans to deploy the clinic to communities without access to functioning healthcare facilities once humanitarian access to Gaza is feasible.<br><br>Gaza has a tiny Christian community and Pope Francis phoned that little bombarded Catholic church almost every day, even during his illness.\u00a0 How very sad that this much needed lifesaving gesture will have to wait until humanitarian and medical supplies can get to where it is needed most.<br><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/00int-popemobile-articleLarge.webp\" title=\"Popemobile Gaza\" alt=\"Popemobile in Gaza\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/00int-popemobile-articleLarge.webp 600w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/00int-popemobile-articleLarge.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<strong>Join a conversation<\/strong><strong>\u00a0on the issue of non-violence with Palestinian activist and academic Mahmoud Zwahre and Andrew Rigby, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies<\/strong><br><br><time datetime=\"2025-05-17\">Saturday, May 17\u00a0<\/time>Wheeler Hall, Leeds LS2 8BE<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/we-choose-non-violence-conversations-with-palestinian-activists-tickets-1324851649949\">Buy Tickets<\/a><br><br><strong>We Choose Non-violence &#8211; conversations with Palestinian activists<\/strong><br><br>Illustrated with film by West Bank filmmakersIncludes updates\u00a0from the West Bank and the significance of \u2018Sumud\u2019 in the Palestinian struggle.<br><br><strong>Mahmoud Zwahre\u00a0<\/strong>is a leading activist and organiser in popular non-violent resistance against settler violence in the West Bank and currently a scholar at Coventry University<br><br><strong>Andrew Rigby\u00a0<\/strong>has researched and written about unarmed resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the 1980s, activities informed by his deep commitment to nonviolence as practice and principle.<br><br><strong>Doors open &amp; refreshments 2.30pm<\/strong><br><br><em>In Conversation<\/em><br><br><em>This is the first in a series of events which aim to provide a safe space where you can listen, talk, ask questions and find out more.<\/em><br><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250517-nonviolence-event.jpg\" title=\"20250517-nonviolence-event\" alt=\"flyer image for event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250517-nonviolence-event.jpg 2160w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250517-nonviolence-event.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250517-nonviolence-event.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250517-nonviolence-event.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250517-nonviolence-event.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250517-nonviolence-event.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2160px) 100vw, 2160px\" \/>\n<strong>Host a Supper Club for Palestine this Summer<\/strong><br><br>The Amos Trust are running a promotion for people to hold \u2018Summer Palestine Supper Club\u2019 event.\u00a0<br><br>Join them to honour Palestinian culture by bringing friends, family, or your local community together for a meal as an act of cultural resistance that <a title=\"Gaza Appeal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amostrust.org\/give\/gaza-appeal\/\">supports the Gaza and West Bank appeal<\/a>. Whether it\u2019s a cosy dinner at home or a bigger gathering at a venue, it\u2019s a simple but powerful way to stand in solidarity with Palestinians.<br><br>How it works:<br><br><ul><li>Invite friends, family or colleagues for a meal<\/li><li>Cook a few simple Palestinian dishes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amostrust.org\/media\/3bikduqm\/amos_trust_supper_club_recipe_pack.pdf\">easy recipes on their website<\/a>)<\/li><li>Ask guests to donate what they would spend on a meal out<\/li><li>Enjoy great food, conversation and solidarity<\/li><\/ul><blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhere politics has been the tool for Israel to divide us, culture has been our tool of uniting ourselves&#8230; and that\u2019s why it\u2019s really important for the solidarity of our friends to understand that, we are not that self-centric that we want to eat hummus all the time, but it has become a way of resilience and looking inward to ourselves, putting a nice warm jacket on ourselves by keeping participating and celebrating the cultural element of the Palestinians.\u201d\u00a0<br><br><\/blockquote><blockquote dir=\"ltr\">Mahmoud Muna \u2014 The Bookseller of Jerusalem\u00a0<br><br><\/blockquote>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amos_trust\/\">Amos Trust on Instagram<\/a> for more recipe ideas<br><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel-scaled-1.jpg\" title=\"amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel\" alt=\"Palestinian Food\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel-scaled-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel-scaled-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel-scaled-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel-scaled-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amos_trust_supper_clubs_2025_3_carousel-scaled-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22,17],"tags":[202,367,412,374,18,185],"class_list":["post-12047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic-social-thought","category-palestine","category-peace","tag-amos-trust","tag-gaza","tag-inconversation","tag-palestine","tag-peace","tag-sparksocialjustice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19885,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions\/19885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}