AMMAN — The Jordan Bar Association (JBA) has decided to
donate JD100,000 to benefit Palestinians in the form of medicine, supplies, and
medical equipment.
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The decision came after a week of fighting that has left over
200 Palestinians dead, including civilians, and thousands wounded across Gaza
and the West Bank.
“The donations will go to the Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem
and the field hospitals in Ramallah and Gaza (operated by the Jordan Armed
Forces-Arab Army),” according to Adel Al-Tarawneh, an attorney and a member of
the committee formed for the donations, who spoke to Jordan News.
“This will be happening under the supervision of the
Jordanian government and the Ministry of Health,” he said. “They are in a
constant contact with them.”
Tarawneh said that the association has a resilience support
fund, which was founded in 2002. Each JBA lawyer pays JD5 every year to
“support our families in beloved Palestine. We will be collecting JD100,000 to
help Palestinians — it is our role to always support them.”
“We will also donate an amount of JD2,000 to the family of
any lawyer martyred as a result of the Zionist massacres. We are in a constant
contact with the bar association in Palestine to know how many lawyers are
martyred and send them the donations,” said Tarawneh. “We will be doing
anything we can to help them. We will not stop here.”
The association’s support for Palestinians also extends to
providing support for Palestinian land claims. Tarawneh confirmed that “we
contact lawyers in the West Bank to provide them with legal documentation they
need to keep their land. That documentation” helps secure their ownership of
their land, “which is threatened with confiscation by the occupation, especially
in Sheikh Jarrah.”
Some of this documentation is in Jordan, Tarawneh said,
adding that “We will make sure to deliver them to those who need them.”
Mohammad Irshaid, a Palestinian attorney attending the
event, told Jordan News that the donations are “highly appreciated and truly
reflect solidarity between Jordan and Palestine.”
“
Jordanians have been always helpful to Palestinians,”
Irshaid added. “They always stay and stand by our sides and we never forget
their honourable actions in every conflict we face.”
“We are facing very difficult circumstances and hard times
in Palestine,” he said. “We need help so we can fight what we are going
through. We need medicine especially, because the number of injuries is ever
increasing, and also the families of the martyrs need money so they can get
back on their feet, especially if the martyr is the breadwinner.”
“It is a must to thank
His Majesty King Abdullah for his
continuous efforts in supporting the Palestinian cause and the Palestinians,”
the lawyer concluded. “I believe that Palestine will be free one day because
international solidarity is with us — especially and most importantly
Jordan’s.”
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