On World Humanitarian Day, ShelterBox USA honors the lives of three colleagues in relief aid: Haitham Juma, Ahmad Sa’ad, and Batoul Abu Samra. They were members of the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association, or PARC, with whom ShelterBox has partnered to deliver critical supplies, including tents, tarpaulins, and rope into Gaza.
Haitham Juma was killed in an Israeli airstrike on June 2 while trying to obtain food aid to feed his family. Ahmad Sa’ad was killed, along with members of his family, in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Gaza City on June 27. Batoul Abu Samra was killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 1. On the same day, nearly her entire family was killed.
As we honor their memory, we continue to call for a permanent ceasefire, for all civilians to be protected, and for humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza.