Today, Monday, the Australian doctor passed away Jane Calder (89 years), after a long life spent in the service of humanitarian work supporting and advocating for our Palestinian cause and our right to get rid of the Israeli occupation, in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
I got Jane Calder She was awarded the “Rafik” Medal from Australia in 2005 in honor of her “humanitarian service in the Middle East, especially for people with disabilities who live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza and disadvantaged areas in Cairo, to international relations, and to academic and vocational training in the fields of education and rehabilitation.”
And mourned the government work follow-up committee Jane Calder She described it as an icon of humanitarian work supporting and advocating for our Palestinian cause and our right to get rid of the occupation.
The committee said in a statement published today to mourn d Jane Calder : “The late doctor devoted most of her life to serving our people and our cause, especially through her medical work. She worked for years as the dean of the Faculty of University Capacity Development in Gaza, and she is considered one of the first contributors to the establishment of the Palestinian Red Crescent.” She added, “The late doctor remained loyal to our people and our cause until the last moments of her life, and she insists on staying in Gaza to continue presenting her humanitarian message.”
The committee offered its condolences to the family of the deceased Jane Calder to the Palestine Red Crescent Society; Stressing that her firm conviction towards our national constants was the result of the oppression of our people, and the deceased touched the aspects of the suffering caused by the occupation. Her life and work Inside a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood camp in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, the Australian Jane Calder lived.
She left her family and her homeland, Australia, and set out 41 years ago to the Middle East, with her eyes set on helping children to live in safety and stability.
I started a story Jane Calder After her arrival in Beirut in 1980 as a volunteer, then she became Jane Calder An employee of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, specialized in educating and caring for children.
During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and in the midst of confrontations and bombing, Jane was fighting a noble battle with the aim of preserving life, to search hospitals for those in need of help.
During the course of the Israeli war on Lebanon, fate intervened greatly in his life Jane Calder, after finding three children of unknown parentage and half-siblings, Dalal, Hamouda and Bilal. All of them have special needs, Hamouda suffers from quadriplegia and mental retardation, Bilal suffers from mental atrophy, and Dalal has been blind since birth.
I worked Jane Calder With the help of the PRCS to get the three children out of Lebanon, she moved with them to Syria to escape the war, before she traveled with Hammouda and Dalal to Egypt, leaving Bilal out of necessity in the Yarmouk camp in Syria, with one of the nurses from the PRCS, because of a problem with his travel papers She prevented him from joining his new family to Egypt.
In 1985, efforts succeeded Jane Calder And the Palestinian Crescent in transferring Bilal to Egypt, to reunite the family, and the Australian woman takes care of three Palestinian children of unknown parentage, after they lived in Egypt for 10 years, and with the return of the Palestinian National Authority, according to the Oslo Accords, to the Palestinian territories, Jane moved with her three children to live in the Strip Gaza, beginnings of 1995 to settle in Khan Yunis.
Gene Calder’s work
Jane recently served as the dean of the University Capacity Development College of the Palestine Red Crescent, which she established herself 15 years ago.
This college integrates healthy children with special needs in some school classes, to raise children who accept each other.
Calder did not get married, as she did not find enough time to do so and start a family, but the children “Badr, Hamouda and Dalal”, the trio of wound, pain and the ugliness of war, formed all of Calder’s concern, so she embraced them with all love and care, and formed a family from them that gave her all the tenderness and love in her heart.
She says about them: “These are my family, with whom I live in Gaza,” and they still haunt me, until now, like a shadow, in whose faces I see the triumph of life.
Hamouda, who suffers from quadriplegia and mental retardation, lived twenty-six years in the arms of his mother Jane Calder And his two brothers, Bilal and Dalal, before he died in 2008 due to his health condition.
As for Bilal, he got married two years ago with the help of his mother and sister, while Dalal, the blind and veiled girl, completed her studies and obtained a master’s degree in human sciences. She is currently a university lecturer and head of the Department of the Faculty of Continuing Education at the University College of the Palestinian Red Crescent. Dalal also speaks English fluently. And French well.
In the early hours of this morning, Monday, corresponding to November 28, 2022 AD, the news of the death of Dr. Jane Calder, who died without knowing any reason until now, was spread, as the cause of her death is unknown, which spread sadness in the hearts of the Palestinian people.
Source: Sawa Agency
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