ACT Special Feature: ACT response in the Middle East

Crisis in Lebanon

Preliminary Appeal
Appeal number: MELB61 Appeal title: Lebanon humanitarian crisis (Preliminary Appeal) for US$ 4,656,152
Issued: 27 July 2006	End date: 31 October 2006

Other actions

Humanitarian crisis in Lebanon	Rapid Response Fund payment	July 20, 2006
Lebanon-Israel conflict	Alert	July 17, 2006

News and updates

Days of fear in Lebanon	Dateline No. 3/06	August 2, 2006
ACT members continue relief and assessments in Lebanon	News Update No. 3/06	July 31, 2006
ACT Int. team in Lebanon to support work of local member	Dateline No. 1/06	July 31, 2006
Humanitarian crisis in Lebanon	Program update No. 2/06	July 25, 2006
ACT member in Lebanon assists people in need	News Update	July 21, 2006
Humanitarian crisis in Lebanon	Program update No. 1/06	July 20, 2006

Palestinian Territories

Appeal
MEPL61 Emergency Assistance to Civilians for US$1,396,013
Issued: March 17, 2006	End date: September 30, 2006
MEPL61 Emergency Assistance to Civilians, Revision 1 (addition of response by Middle East Council of Churches/Department of Service to Palestine Refugees [MECC/DSPR]) for US$1,956,139
Issued: May 12, 2006	End date: December 31, 2006/September 30, 2006

Photos

ACT Datelines/features posted in the past

'We are not alone': Sept. 17, 2003
Churches fight for health rights: Sept. 17, 2003
Christian accompaniers support transport of West bank patients to hospital: July 23, 2002
Interview with Tawfiq Nasser, CEO of Augusta Victoria Hospital, in which he discusses health access as a fundamental human right and describes how ACT funding has been critical in extending health services to all Palestinians living under Israeli occupation (first link on this page); interview is from 2003, but his comments still have relevance today.

Additional resources:

World Council of Churches: Pastoral Letter on the violence in the Middle East (English & Arabic)
Lutheran World Federation: General Secretary Noko denounces current grave escalation of conflict