Palestinian campaign settles debts of those killed during Great Return March
A Gaza-based charity campaign is helping the families of the Great Return March victims to settle debts with a newly launched campaign.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Fadi Abu Salah, one of the Palestinians killed during the Great Return March, left his family with a huge debt that they had no means of paying off — until a small group of local activists came to their aid and set up a social initiative.
The initiative is using donations from Muslim families who gave during the holy month of Ramadan to help the families of those killed in the protests along the Israeli-Gaza border between March 30 and May 15.
Abu Salah, whose legs had been amputated following an injury during the 2008 Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, had just finished building a house for his family and had been unable to pay his debts to lending institutions and the construction company. In addition, he owed money to the shopkeepers who had extended his family credit to buy food and basic necessities.
Abu Salah was killed May 14 by an Israeli sniper in the largest protests in Gaza since 2014.
