The 11-year-old, who lost his foot to Israeli shelling in 2006, gets surgery in L.A. and TLC from a group of Southland residents. Abdullah Alathamna was 7 years old when the first Israeli shell crashed into his family’s home in the Gaza Strip, jolting him from sleep. In the blitz of explosions that followed, Abdullah lost his mother, two sisters and his right foot. Three and a half years later, he found...

On November 14, four injured children from the Gaza Strip arrived in the USA for free medical care after suffering injuries in the Gaza Strip. 4-year-old Farah Abu Halima arrived in San Diego for extensive reconstructive surgery after being injured by an IDF phosphorus bomb on January 4th in which her mother and several of her relatives were killed. She is being accompanied by her grandmother, who lost her...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund’s (PCRF) Annual Gala, Healing Hands. I would also like to thank the PCRF for its exemplary achievements and gifts of service to help children in the Middle East over the years.

Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to extend my warmest greetings to all who have gathered for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund’s (PCRF) gala, Healing Hands. Since its inception in 1991, the PCRF has addressed countless medical, humanitarian, and educational needs of Palestinian youth.

AFSC-LA’s MotherSpeak panelists (l-r) Rossana Cambron, Susan Galleymore, Patty Domay, Cole Miller, Suhaila Nasir and Vivien Sansour (Staff photo S. Twair) By Pat and Samir Twair “MOTHERSPEAK” was the title of the third program in a series on “Women and War: Searching for Peace” sponsored by American Friends Service Committee– Los Angeles. Five women and one man spoke at the May 3 event examining...

On October 17, 2009, the Southern California Chapter of the PCRF will be hosting its annual Healing Hands gala at the Anaheim Hilton in Anaheim. The dinner will start at 6:00PM and will feature Ralph Nader as the keynote speaker. The Healing Hands Gala has become one of our most popular fundraising events, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars towards medical missions and humanitarian projects in the Middle...

Friends of Marwa Naim, who was wounded during the U.S.-led invasion, worried for her safety when she went back to her homeland after surgery at UCLA in 2006. Now she’s back in the U.S. and happy. By KURT STREETER Los Angeles Times July 13, 2009 Her words made my heart sink. “I want to go back,” she said, speaking by phone from her home in a rough section of Baghdad. She was speaking of America....

Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio In The House of Representatives In Recognition of The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund   Madam Speaker, I rise today in order to recognize the achievements of The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) on the occasion of their 2008 gala, entitled “Healing Hands.”  For the past seventeen years, PCRF has played an instrumental role in providing some of the...

On October 18, 2008 the PCRF-SC brought the Arab-American community together at the Anaheim Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, California to show our appreciation and gratitude for all the work they do on behalf of our children in Palestine and all over the Middle East. Our theme, Healing Hands offered the audience the opportunity to touch the lives of innocent children in need. We welcomed performances by the UCLA Students...

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund for their commitment and noble work and for the remarkable job you do in helping Palestinian children, who are in vital need of this medical attention. Children living under occupation and under the constant threat of danger endure the most. It is organizations like the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund that light...