Issued by the Catholic Center for Studies and Media - Jordan. Editor-in-chief Fr. Rif'at Bader - موقع أبونا abouna.org

Published on Friday, 9 February 2024
Sant'Egidio welcomes injured children from Gaza arriving in Italy for treatment

santegidio.org :

The war in Gaza afflicts thousands of children every day. Some have just arrived in Italy, accompanied by a few adults, at the initiative of the government, and will be treated in Italian hospitals that have offered their availability.

 

The Community of Sant'Egidio--together with the other associations involved in the Humanitarian Corridors and always committed to humanitarian aid, namely Caritas Italiana, the Federation of Evangelical Churches and Arci--has expressed its immediate support for this humanitarian action and activated its territorial network to find solutions and take care of the children and their families.

 

All children have their own story of suffering to tell whereby  young V. has lost his whole family and would never let his grandmother's hand go. Volunteers welcome them with flowers and toys, a friendly face after such hardship.

 

Eight years' experience of Humanitarian Corridors for people fleeing wars, which have saved some 7,000 people in Europe so far, helps to meet children's needs for urgent medical and humanitarian responses.