The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews Conducts Unprecedented Aid Operation to Support Persecuted Christian & Druze Communities in Syria

May 2, 2025

Israel’s largest provider of humanitarian aid partners with IDF to deliver food and medical supplies

JERUSALEM – The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) announced today that it conducted an unprecedented mission to provide lifesaving humanitarian aid to the persecuted Christian and Druze communities in Syria. The delivery of aid was carried out in partnership with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in an overnight operation amid significant risk and ongoing warfare, and included 1,500 food boxes for families living in extreme poverty.

This delivery of lifesaving aid is the first in The Fellowship’s $120,000 effort to provide assistance to Christian and Druze communities in the region, which has recently suffered a string of attacks and seen sharply escalating tensions between the Druze communities and Syria’s new regime. In recent weeks alone, hundreds of Christians have been killed, and at least 73 Druze fatalities have been reported in the violent clashes.

“If there is violence and persecution happening on Israel’s border, we cannot look away,” said Yael Eckstein, President & Global CEO of The Fellowship. “It is our responsibility to stand with Christians on our borders to provide them with aid, and to stand with all Christians facing persecution across the Middle East in the same way Christians have always stood by Israel during her times of greatest need.”

The food boxes provided by The Fellowship include staple food items aimed at alleviating immediate hunger and nutritional concerns faced by those displaced due to the ongoing violence.

The Fellowship also plans to provide basic medical supplies for a local clinic in the village of Rima, which serves multiple Christian and Druze communities, and hopes to eventually expand its support of the clinic to include additional, much-needed advanced equipment, such as X-ray machines and ventilators. Such an expansion would significantly enhance the clinic’s ability to diagnose and treat more complex medical conditions, as the nearest hospital is nearly 40 miles away.

While the operation is the first of its kind for The Fellowship, the organization has long supported the Israeli Christian community, by providing Christmas food boxes for those in need, and funding medical facilities, including a hospital in Nazareth.

“We pray that this aid will not only provide for their physical needs, but will give them hope and let them know there are people who care about them,” Eckstein added. “The world may be silent about Christians facing persecution, but The Fellowship is not – and our supporters are not.”