Jamie Eyre

Not here so much anymore, taking an X break.

[Church Times @ChurchTimes]

"We now believe that the conditions are right for pilgrims to return. We hope that UK Christians and churches will consider St George’s as an option for them." - @sgcjerusalem #pilgrimage #HolyLand #Jerusalem #Palestinians
https://t.co/vVWxsm59g0

[Madeleine Davies @MadsDavies]

The first "Bethlehem Carol Sheet" from 1956! Still going strong at @FollowEmbrace today and ready to be ordered here (slightly different design).
Embrace recently began funding an emergency employment project in Bethlehem, among many other good causes https://t.co/CicjiRvHhZ

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

@davidyelland I travelled this road exactly three years ago with Caritas Jerusalem’s medical team, hard to fathom that almost everything has gone. I met the Director this week. Getting 100 staff back into Gaza city and supporting them to scale up aid delivery is no small task.

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

You can listen to their podcast with our friends at the @catholicEW here:

https://t.co/g5N7VGTPbn

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

I had the privilege to spend a couple of hours with @FollowEmbrace friend and partner Anton Asfar, Director of @CaritasJLM , and Fr Elias Tabban, of Zababdeh Parish in the West Bank, last week while they were in London.

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

We discussed hope as the Caritas Jerusalem team distributed 10,000 cartons of milk to families in Gaza earlier in the week, the resilience and service of the Christian community in the northern West Bank, and the many challenges to come.

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

On a day of more cautious optimism than we’ve witnessed for a while in Gaza, this news is a reminder that the wider situation for Palestinians remains unchanged. A real and lasting peace will also need to address inequalities and occupation in the West Bank.

[Richard Sewell @sgcjerusalem]

The cautious relief evoked by the news of a ceasefire deal for Gaza has been immediately shattered by news today that following a court appearance, Layan Nasir has been taken immediately to prison. Layan and her family must now endure a further eight months of suffering.

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine. 

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

A start… this now needs to be sustained and expanded.

[Embrace the Middle East @FollowEmbrace]

We give thanks that food aid is starting to trickle into Gaza. But this trickle needs to become a sustained torrent to have any hope of alleviating the disastrous consequences of months of starvation.

Please continue to support the #FastForGaza campaign: https://t.co/Bc9W65Z9tE

[Embrace the Middle East @FollowEmbrace]

We give thanks that food aid is starting to trickle into Gaza. But this trickle needs to become a sustained torrent to have any hope of alleviating the disastrous consequences of months of starvation.

Please continue to support the #FastForGaza campaign: https://t.co/Bc9W65Z9tE

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

“Reconciliation with God. Reconciliation with the land. And reconciliation with each other. This is the vision we work for together.”

My brilliant colleague writing in @ChristianToday

[Embrace the Middle East @FollowEmbrace]

Do read @ruthvalerio’s new piece on @ChristianToday:

https://t.co/PiL28raQki

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

My reflections on failing unimpartial aid: https://t.co/JTW1r6cRdO @FollowEmbrace

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

In The Times comment on Gaza today.

In simple language: “This cannot go on.”

https://t.co/A780hoaeeW

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

@AmiDar It is so grim, I just need to vocalise it today. The innocent victims of Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, they each have a name, a story and an inherent worth. What are we doing?

[Rachel Treweek @BishGloucester]

Bishops call on UK government to take action over West Bank settler violence | Anglicanism | The Guardian https://t.co/MBKUoLJoSk

[Jamie Eyre @aidworkerman]

Powerful stories, glimpses of more ordinary people caught up in this horror.

'The scale of what is happening in Gaza is hard to process, but at its heart is the travesty of small intimacies destroyed, moments of friendship, reconciliation, inspiration, enjoyed over coffee.'

[Paraic O'Brien @paraicobrien]

The Al Baqa Cafe, #Gaza was more than just a place to get a coffee. People went there for inspiration too. For artists, athletes, everyone it was an incubator of normality and creativity in war. Then it was hit by an Israeli missile.
https://t.co/XTwTWhPSvL

[Paraic O'Brien @paraicobrien]

The Al Baqa Cafe, #Gaza was more than just a place to get a coffee. People went there for inspiration too. For artists, athletes, everyone it was an incubator of normality and creativity in war. Then it was hit by an Israeli missile.
https://t.co/XTwTWhPSvL

[dr harry hagopian 🥸 @harryhagopian]

How are Palestinians, incl Palestinian Christians, coping w/ an Israeli occupation that stifles every ounce of their human rights? They face it by showing courage to be a light in the darkness > by @ruthvalerio of @FollowEmbrace via @Christianitymag : https://t.co/RJdQZ2ytYz

[Jamie Hawkey @jamie_hawkey]

From 1500 Christian families in Gaza before the war, now only 350-400 left. The devotion of these wonderful Christian people humbles us, even as they deal with almost immeasurable grief. May they know the Easter gift deep in their hearts. And may this savage, wicked violence end.