ギリシアにはシリア難民のためにイスラエルとユダヤ系団体が設置した救援施設Tikkun Olam がある
ギリシアには、シリア難民のためにイスラエルとユダヤ系団体が設置した救援施設がある。シリアにとってイスラエルは敵だが、ギリシャに命からがら逃げてきたシリア難民がイスラエルやユダヤ系ボランティアによって助けられていることを世界は知らない。チィクンオラムは米国のユダヤ系ボランティア団体で、ギリシャではイスラエルもこの組織に協力し難民救済の支援に当たっている。難民はシリア人のみならずイラン、イラク、アフガニスタンなどの人々も含まれている。
LESBOS - "My whole life, all through my childhood in Syrian schools, I was taught that the Israelis are the enemy, and then the first thing I see when I approach the Greek coast is the Star of David on the shirts of Israelis who reach out and place me on the ground."
The speaker is H., aged 20, from Aleppo in northwestern Syria. H. lives in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and, according to the United Nations, is one of 60,000 Syrian refugees in Greece, 14,000 of whom live on the Greek islands.
An aid worker reaches for a Syrian refugee on the coast of Lesbos (Photo: Reuters)
H. escaped the civil war in Syria without his family, and to this day has no idea what happened to them. After spending two years in Turkey, he decided, like hundreds of thousands of other refugees, to try his luck and cross the sea to Lesbos, just a few kilometers from the Turkish coastline. On the beach were waiting members of IsraAID, which since 2011 has been providing humanitarian aid at crisis poi
