Ajyal Foundation

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Every step you take helps provide education and mental health support for displaced children in Gaza.

Thanks to our supporter’s generosity, this year Ajyal has already provided:
• 3,500 children and their families with emergency supplies
• 12,979 children with access to education and psychosocial support activities

Run the Oxford Half Marathon to help us reach thousands more children this year! Together, every step can make a difference.

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“Zalla” (En. ‘Slip’) is the second song to be released from the 7-track album “The war planes must fall silent” featuring renowned Lebanese singer Oumeima El Khalil. The album is built around the poetry of Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul and is a collaboration between El Khalil and Palestinian composter Habib Shehadeh Hanna.

The album is supported by Ajyal Foundation and is part of our cultural programme.

Stay tuned for the release of more songs in the coming weeks, and listen to the first two singles at the links in our bio!

Oumeima El Khalil مروان مخول Habib Hanna

Over 9,000 children attend the community-led schools Ajyal supports. In Gaza today, these classes offer more than education — they provide a sense of belonging and continuity to children facing repeated displacement, constant uncertainty, and horrific violence. Your support helps us sustain and expand these spaces across Gaza. Consider becoming a regular donor to deepen your impact.

Israel has continued to deliberately target and kill Palestinian children, continuing acts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Gaza and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, according to a report released this week by the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

It found that 30% of people killed in Gaza since the start of this genocidal war were children. Even since the announcement of a ceasefire last October, on average, one child has been killed every day since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza in 2023.

The UN also warned that children are being left “increasingly unprotected” as humanitarian groups and rights defenders are forced to scale back their operations in the Palestinian territory.

As an organisation actively working to support the security and wellbeing of Palestinian children in Gaza, Ajyal joins the UN commission in calling on Israel to cease its violence against Palestinian children.

The UN commission’s statement makes clear, “The protection, care and survival of Palestinian children are inseparable from the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.”

Providing educational materials to children in the community-led schools that Ajyal supports has directly increased attendance. These materials give displaced children the tools they need to engage in class amid severe instability.

Your support funds these materials, expands access to education, and creates safer learning spaces — offering children a vital sense of continuity in their daily lives. Donate today to give children in Gaza both opportunity and stability.

Ajyal supports educational community-led initiatives in over 17 locations in Gaza. Your support allows us to continue to provide essential materials, teachers’ stipends, and more, improving the continuity of these initiatives and children’s access to education. We’re very grateful for the long-standing support of our community who make this possible.

Your donation today will help Ajyal continue supporting these initiatives and providing essential supplies!

Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, is a major literary figure in Palestinian literature and is widely regarded as the ‘country’s national poet’. Comprised of two of Mahmoud Darwish’s later poems – ‘Mural’ and ‘The Dice Player’ (the latter of which Darwish read in Ramallah a month before his death) – his book, Mural, explores themes of the pain and grief of dispossession, and exile, focusing on ‘watan’ (Arabic for ‘homeland’). Translated and published posthumously, Mural serves as a testimony from the Palestinian author and poet who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.

Ajyal is proud to announce the release today of the first single from an album that features the renowned Lebanese singer, Omaima Al Khalil. Called “The war planes must fall silent”, the album is thematically built around the poetry of Palestinian poet, Marwan Makhoul, and is a collaboration between Al Khalil and Palestinian composer, Habib Shehada Hanna, and also features a choir from Haifa. The first song from the 7-track album is called ‘Al Yatima’ (‘The Orphan’) and is released today, with more to be released over the coming weeks. Watch this space for more details.

This unique artistic collaboration is supported by Ajyal Foundation, and is part of our cultural programme.

This non-fiction children’s book is a celebration of Palestinian heritage, exploring the rich history of everything from food to tatreez embroidery, the history of old cities to dabke folk dance. Young readers are able to learn about the breadth of culture and traditions in Palestine through the captivating writing of Reem Kassis and beautiful illustrations by Noha Eilouti, making it an excellent book for parents, educators, and caregivers to introduce children to Palestinian life.