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Trade unionists raising funds to provide holidays for children in a West Bank refugee camp
A girl looks out from a window of a building damaged by shrapnels after an Israeli forces raid in the West Bank Jenin refugee camp, May 23, 2024

TRADE unionists are raising money to give disabled children in a Palestinian refugee camp a holiday.

Members of branches of union Unite in London and England’s south-west have established links with Shu’fat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

The branches help fund an annual summer camp for disabled children from Shu’fat.

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