How It All Started
How and why the project started
A Project to Support Gaza
Since the outbreak of the war, the civilian population in Gaza has been going through a time of extreme difficulty. Compassionate Hearts for Palestine is a project aimed at providing support to the people of Gaza, especially children.
This project was born from the contact between Delphine Noels, a Belgian filmmaker, and Ahmed Almoghrabi, who was the head of the Department of Plastic and Burn Surgery at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
When the war broke out, Dr. Almoghrabi took refuge with his family at Nasser Hospital. But by January 2024, as Khan Younis became a target of Israeli bombings, the hospital came under a three-week siege. The people who had taken refuge there—patients and medical teams alike—lived through hell.
It was not uncommon for medical teams to work in darkness, with only a few staff and phone flashlights as their source of light.
At times, the operating room shook like an earthquake due to the bombings. The hospital was no longer supplied with medicine, drinking water, or food. Dr. Almoghrabi continued to operate on patients who arrived day and night.
In mid-February 2024, the hospital was directly attacked and then taken over by the Israeli army. Most of the medical staff were either killed or arrested. Fortunately, Dr. Almoghrabi managed to escape to Rafah, where he worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for several months before eventually managing to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt.
Thanks to the efforts of Delphine Noels and the Wings of Healing team, as well as the Catholic University of Louvain and the Grand Hospital of Charleroi, Dr. Almoghrabi was able to obtain a visa for Belgium.
There, he is studying the operations of the skin bank at the Grand Hospital of Charleroi, with the goal of one day creating a similar facility in Gaza.
Our objectives
Multiply the creation of schools
Faced with the destruction of most schools in Gaza, we decided to take action by opening schools to give Gazan children the opportunity to continue studying and learning in a supportive environment. Our ambition is to further develop these initiatives and enable an ever-growing number of children to access education, despite difficulties.
Offer prothesis to the injured children
The conflict has caused numerous amputations among children, who often do not have access to prosthetics. We have partnered with UGANI Prosthetics, a global leader in 3D-printed prosthetics. Thanks to their innovative technology, we can provide prosthetics quickly and at a lower cost. Our goal is to supply thousands of prosthetics to children in Gaza, in order to offer them a better quality of life.
Deploy a mobile laboratory of 3D prothesis.
To address the urgent need for prosthetics in Gaza, we plan to create a mobile PrintLab—an entirely self-sufficient unit capable of producing prosthetics. This lab will be set up in Egypt or the West Bank to become operational quickly and provide equipment to patients waiting for a prosthetic.
As soon as conditions allow, we aim to move this unit directly into Gaza.
Together, let’s restore hope to those who need it.