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.
Together, let’s restore hope to those who need it.