In what UN officials have described as the worst refugee crisis in 20 years, more than a million Syrians, half of them children, have fled the country in the past six months. Since the outbreak of the Syrian war in March 2011, the total number of Syrian refugees is now up to 2 million people. According to Jordan’s minister of state for media affairs, Mohammad al-Momani, more than one million of those Syrian refugees have flooded into Jordan. For neighboring Israelis, the tragic developments have not gone unnoticed.

“There are a number of Israeli citizens and organizations involved with aid distribution to Syrian refugees, which have sent hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid to Jordan,” said Dr. Nir Boms from Haifa University in a recent interview with Tazpit News Agency.

Dr. Boms himself is involved with aid distribution to Syrian refugees through an Israeli group called Hand in Hand with Syrian Refugees. Made up of concerned Israeli citizens and NGOs, Hand in Hand was initiated in the beginning of 2013 to address the Syrian situation.

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Partnering up with an American Christian charity, Operation Blessing, and Israel’s Reut Institute, Hand in Hand has been raising funds, and sending and distributing humanitarian aid to Jordan’s Syrian refugees throughout the past year.

In May, Hand in Hand sent a special truckload filled with 5,000 winter jackets and sweaters, along with 1,000 pairs of shoes and toys, with the aid of Operation Blessing, to Syrian refugees.