Amel Association International announced that it is about to activate a new level of the emergency plan it launched in October 2023 in response to field developments in Lebanon, especially on the humanitarian and health levels.
Amel Association stressed in a statement issued on September 18, 2024, that the tragic explosions that took place in several Lebanese regions, leaving thousands of wounded and victims, indicate a deterioration in the situation, which requires raising the readiness of its team of 1,600 volunteers and full-timers, in addition to its 40 centers and mobile clinics, in response to people’s needs.
“Our long experience with the repeated Israeli wars on Lebanon, and in various emergencies, provides us with expertise and knowledge about the ugliness of what may happen. Israel acts as if international and humanitarian law does not exist, and we, in return, must be psychologically and logistically prepared to bear the horrors of events. Our team in southern Lebanon, on the border front lines, has not abandoned its humanitarian and health duty to this day. They continue to work with people through centers and mobile clinics in the areas of Arqoub, Marjeyoun, Khiyam, Halta, Fardis, and Abel Al-Saqi, with support from other centers in Al-Bazourieh, Tyre, and Nabatieh”. Said Dr. Kamel Mohanna, President of Amel International.
“What the Amel Association team and the rest of those stationed on the humanitarian defense lines are doing, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and local and international humanitarian institutions, is standing by the people through workers in the health and humanitarian sectors, whose steadfastness is an extension of the noble sacrifices made by workers in the health and humanitarian sectors in the Gaza Strip, in confronting the enemy Humanity does not recognize laws, regulations, and human values. This same enemy is waging an organized campaign of genocide in Gaza, focusing on bombing and targeting life facilities, especially hospitals. It has repeated this in Lebanon, where the Amel Association Center in Khiam was bombed four times until it was recently put out of service, in addition to targeting places of worship, agricultural fields, and life facilities that are supposed to be protected by international laws. The latest of these crimes was the war crime we witnessed yesterday.” Mohanna added.
Mohanna concluded by saying: “We call on the free world to move to save international law and the Charter of Human Rights before anything else because leniency with Israeli practices, if they continue and are left unpunished, will be the end of these laws and charters, which will threaten peace everywhere in the world, especially in our region.
Amel Association stands today with the people in all available ways. It will continue to play its role in the humanitarian resistance, and we will be among those who do not close their doors to people and their rights, neither in peace nor in the fiercest wars.”
