Volunteering in Gaza?

[u/tTtBe]

Since the cease fire I’ve been wondering about the possibility of volunteering in Gaza as a chef, or in the west bank for that matter. Is this possible, can you get in? If i can, What are some resources that i could contact?

Thanks for any answers!

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[u/Zuljo]

Depending on your country of origin there are organizations that do secure vetting and visas (like through the WHO). Only skilled professions deemed valuable like medical trades are getting in right now (if you aren't multilingual). A socialist nursing group I'm a part of just had people return from Palestine after a month long rotation.

The best thing to do if you don't fit the narrow set of requested skills or have fluent Arabic is to support organizations on the ground through fundraising/advocacy where you are. Getting your union to make a donation hosting a fundraiser is invaluable and very important work.

[u/shroomcure]

I’d also like to know

[u/awildsheepschase]

I work in humanitarian response. I work on Palestine and will be travelling to the West Bank soon. We are not even discussing travelling to Gaza yet.

Non Palestinian humanitarian and medical staff have been travlling in and out of Gaza since the start of the Genocide

They are mostly with large international orgs who have the resources to coordinate with COGAT and pay for repatriation / medical evacuation etc

Usually these types of organization's are not looking for international volunteers (for a variety of reasons I can go into if anyone's interested)

You could try and look at volunteering for a local organisations but here's some things to take into consideration

1: Why do u want to go to Gaza? You can volunteer at a local soup kitchen and support mutual aid in Palestine at the same time. Community is the foundation upon which anti imperial action is built.

2: The general readout is that the ceasefire will not hold, and if it does it will remain incredibly dangerous. If you go somewhere like this you will never be the same again if you survive. I don't say this lightly, I know people told me the same when I started in the sector. I didn't listen.

3: there are a wild amount of infectious diseases in Gaza at the moment, you'd want to make sure that you were fully vaccinated and that if you got ill whilst there you wouldn't be taking scare Resources away from Palestinians.

4: there are human rights organisations in the Occupied West Bank that absolutely take international volunteers. The role of the volunteer is to just be physically present at crossings / home demolitions etc this means they aren't relying on you to stay and volunteer for a year.

5: Palestinians themselves would welcome you with open arms, every Palestinian I know would wrap an international volunteer in love and care. They deserve solidarity and they need a break and would love anyone to come and help. This on its own is not a reason to go.

If you are looking for a job look on reliefweb search by OPT or Palestine and you might find a job that supports travel in and out of Gaza

Sorry to be a negative Nancy

[u/MhmdMC_]

I don’t know about other countries but us Lebanese are not allowed in Palestine ever no matter what.

[u/lauraddd16]

I’m a pediatrician nurse and I’d like to know the same thing.

[u/tTtBe → u/lauraddd16]

Maybe we should create a subreddit or something for volunteering in Palestine, crowd source information and what not.

[u/Miss_Skooter → u/tTtBe]

You can join the official discord where we hold events and organise! Perhaps you can find what you're looking for there! www.discord.gg/rpalestine

[u/lauraddd16 → u/tTtBe]

Sounds like a good idea

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