Fox News features an extensive interview with Yael Eckstein, The Fellowship’s president and global CEO, on our groundbreaking efforts to supply aid to persecuted religious minorities in Syria:
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews swiftly mobilized its resources in July to aid persecuted Syrian Druze and Christians facing what some have called a genocide carried out by jihadists in southern Syria.
Syrian-backed forces, including jihadist fighters, launched attacks against Syrian Druze in the southern part of the country, resulting in the murders of at least 1,400 people, including a 35-year-old Syrian American from Oklahoma, Hosam Saraya, who was visiting family in Syria.
“Once we saw what was happening in Sweida, we could not turn a blind eye to it.” International Fellowship of Christians and Jews President and Global CEO Yael Eckstein told Fox News Digital.
Her organization, she noted, had never operated in Syria prior to this year but said her organization “got an urgent call from a hospital from Sweida, and they needed basic medicines, surgical care, ICU medicine and equipment, first responder equipment and masks for morgue workers.”
The Fellowship coordinated with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to deliver medicine and equipment to Sweida. Eckstein said her group supplied “retired Israeli ambulances to Syria so the locals can operate them.”
Who are the Druze? While members of this religious/ethnic minority live in several countries in the Middle East, about 150,000 live in Israel. Learn more about this group who are among the most strongly patriotic Israelis.
