{"id":227984,"date":"2019-12-24T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=227984"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:04:31","slug":"an-ocha-opt-humanitarian-fund-success-story-protecting-palestinians-in-hebron-by-repairing-their-homes","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/an-ocha-opt-humanitarian-fund-success-story-protecting-palestinians-in-hebron-by-repairing-their-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"An OCHA oPt Humanitarian Fund Success Story \u2013 Protecting Palestinians in Hebron by Repairing their Homes – Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

An oPt Humanitarian Fund success story<\/h2>\n

Suhad is a 38-year-old Palestinian from Hebron city. She lives in H2, the area that Israel controls directly, where it maintains several settlement compounds and, citing security concerns, severely restricts the movement of Palestinians. For many years, people living there have experienced violence and aggression by Israeli forces and settlers, among other occupation-related practices, and have been among the most vulnerable groups in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

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Suhad\u2019s family is no exception to that. For some time, she was concerned that her family may even be exposed to violence inside their home, where the main door could not be locked, and the window frames were old and unstable. \u201cSomebody might break into the house or throw something through the window or the roof and harm my family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

However, until recently, no repair work could be done to make the house a safer place for the family. Suhad\u00b4s husband has been unemployed for five years due to lack of job opportunities, and she has been working in a kindergarten as part of an Emergency Job Creation Programme, generating limited income. \u201cMy salary of 1,500 Shekels [US$430] hardly covers our basic expenses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

“My daughter could not use the room again as, every time she slept there, she would wake up coughing as, every time she slept there, she would wake up coughing.”<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In October 2018, a fire broke in her 4-year-old daughter\u2019s bedroom. \u201cI was in the kitchen when I heard my daughter Muluk shouting and, luckily, I managed to rescue her from the fire,\u201d Suhad said. \u201cShe was not harmed but all the furniture and walls were totally burned.\u201d The fire had been caused by an old electrical heater and bad electrical connections inside the house. \u201cMy daughter could not use the room again as, every time she slept there, she would wake up coughing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 2019, with funding received from the\u00a0Humanitarian Fund for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt HF)<\/a>, their home became one of 60 houses rehabilitated in H2 as part of a project implemented by Action Against Hunger (ACF). By fixing sub-standard homes in that area, the project aimed at increasing people\u2019s safety, for those vulnerable to attacks by Israeli forces or settlers, and at proofing shelters from natural hazards. More than 300 people have already benefitted from this project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe door and window frames have been replaced,\u201d Suhad recalled. \u201cThanks to the project, my daughter\u2019s room became livable again. She is even spending most of her time playing in the \u2018new white room\u2019, as she calls it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many Palestinians in that area of Hebron cannot afford proper maintenance or repair of their homes, and the access of labourers and construction materials is also restricted. As a result, houses are often unsafe, unhealthy or unfriendly for their inhabitants, pushing families to move out, if they can afford it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Suhad\u2019s daughter, Muluk (4 years old), standing in her repaired bedroom.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2019, OCHA\u2019s \u201cProtection of Civilians\u201d monitoring captured more than 40 attacks by Israeli settlers resulting in Palestinian injuries or property damage in H2. This is also one of the areas with the highest concentration of movement restrictions in the entire West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Project name:<\/strong><\/td>\nEmergency response to upgrade the inadequate shelters of vulnerable families in Hebron\u2019s H2 area to protect them from attacks by Israeli military and settlers, as well as from natural hazards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cluster:<\/b><\/td>\nShelter and Non-Food Items<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of beneficiaries:<\/b><\/td>\n309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Benefitting communities:<\/b><\/td>\nH2 Area of Hebron city<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allocation:<\/b><\/td>\nUS$300,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Implementing partner:<\/b><\/td>\nAction Against Hunger (ACF)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Start year:<\/b><\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An oPt Humanitarian Fund success story Suhad is a 38-year-old Palestinian from Hebron city. She lives in H2, the area that Israel controls directly, where it maintains several settlement compounds and, citing security concerns, severely restricts the movement of Palestinians. For many years, people living there have experienced violence and aggression by Israeli forces and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2453],"document-source":[2169],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2033,2013,2729],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-227984","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-article","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-children","document-subject-hebron","document-subject-shelter","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/227984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/227984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=227984"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=227984"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=227984"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=227984"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=227984"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=227984"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=227984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}