Episcopal Relief and Development is responding to the bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital and St. Philip's Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East. The hospital compound was hit by a missile on January 24. The missile came through the roof and left a meter-wide hole in the floor. The damage has paralyzed the hospital's in-house Mobile Clinic Program. The program serves families in three surrounding villages that are under siege.

"We hold a clinic, and as the word spreads patients show up knowing we will give them care," says Nancy Dinsmore, Development Officer for the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East. "Our clinics have about 200 to 225 [patients] who register for care and the majority are children," states Dinsmore.

Episcopal Relief and Development is helping those most in need by providing $25,000 in emergency assistance for food, clothing, and medicine and support of the Mobile Clinic Program.