As the conflicts continues to rage in Gaza and Lebanon, it is all too easy for us to turn away or lose hope that anything can be done for the millions of people across the region whose lives have been devastated over the past year. However, the response of the public to our Middle East Humanitarian Appeal has once again been remarkable. After just two weeks more than £2 million has been raised in Scotland , more than £20 million across the UK.
First of all, on behalf of all 15 of the DEC’s member charities and their incredibly brave and resolute local first responders, I say a huge thank you to each and every individual and organisation that has once again responded with compassion for those most desperately in need of support. Our combined efforts - and the key humanitarian principles that underpin them - have been bolstered once again by powerful cross party backing for the Appeal at Holyrood. A policeman checks a destroyed journalists' car after an Israeli airstrike killed three media staffers from two different news agencies in Hasbaya village, southeast Lebanon (Image: AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) We’re also hugely grateful to the Scottish Government for their support with the release of £200,000 from the Humanitarian Emergency Fund, followed by a wide range of business and civil society partners who have donated directly or encouraged their staff and customers to back the Appeal.
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