An ecosystem of Care.
Gaza's war has left thousands of people with limb loss, and dismantled the ecosystem of services that would rehabilitate them. Gaza Rehab Care (GRC) is a long-term program led by Taawon, working with Palestinian providers, health authorities and international partners to help rebuild it: surgery, prosthetics, physiotherapy, mental health support and lifelong follow-up.
Beyond emergency relief. Care delivered locally, and built for generations to come.
Gaza, 2026Gaza's rehabilitation crisis is documented and growing
The best available figures come from the World Health Organization, drawing on Palestinian Ministry of Health reporting and data from providers on the ground. Its May 2026 update records both the injuries and the shortfall in services meant to treat them.
Estimates vary between sources and are revised as access improves. GRC uses WHO figures, which draw on Palestinian Ministry of Health reporting and input from providers in Gaza.
Source: WHO, Estimating Trauma Rehabilitation Needs in Gaza, May 2026 update.
Independence for every person. A system that sustains itself.
Gaza Rehab Care is a long-term program led by Taawon and delivered by a coalition of Palestinian and international partners, so that people with limb loss in Gaza have a full path back: not a device alone, but the assessment, therapy and follow-up that make it work.
The aim is a rehabilitation system that outlasts the emergency: staffed and owned by Palestinians, built into the wider health system.
Two tracks, one system
GRC works on two levels at once: care for each person with limb loss, and the capacity that makes that care last. Support can be directed to either. All funding is managed by Taawon.
Individual care
The full continuum, for every person with limb loss.
Each person follows a tailored path: assessment and any surgical revision, prosthetic fitting and assistive products, physiotherapy and psychosocial support, and the community support to return to daily life.
Ecosystem building
The capacity to make it last.
Working alongside Gaza-based partners, GRC helps train Palestinian rehabilitation specialists, deploy mobile teams that reach people across Gaza, and build a digital case-management system so every person's care is tracked and coordinated across providers.
Five stages, one person
Every person supported by the GRC program follows the same path. This is what a full recovery requires, and what a donation can carry from start to finish.
Assessment
Clinical evaluation of the injury and what recovery will take.
Pre-fitting therapy
Physiotherapy to prepare the limb and body, with psychosocial support from the start.
Fitting
A custom prosthesis or assistive device, made and fitted to the person.
Post-fitting therapy
Training to walk, grip, and move again with the new device.
Reintegration
Return to school, work, and family life, with follow-up that lasts.
Restore, expand, sustain
Working with its partners, GRC follows a phased path for rebuilding Gaza's rehabilitation services, set out in the field assessment and shared across the sector. Each phase builds the conditions for the next.
Meet the need now
Prosthetics, therapy and assistive devices for the people already waiting, and essential services and facilities running again.
Build the workforce
Train Palestinian prosthetists, orthotists and therapists, and widen access across Gaza.
Anchor it in the system
Embed rehabilitation in Gaza's health system, with the governance and long-term financing to hold it there after the emergency response ends.
Led by Taawon, delivered together
Gaza Rehab Care is delivered by a coalition of institutions that can build a rehabilitation system and make it last: founding partners, academic and technical expertise, and the Palestinian providers delivering care on the ground.
Founding
Academic partner
Implementing partners
GRC is governed by a steering group that includes Taawon, the Global Health Institute at AUB, the Munib & Angela Masri Foundation and Imperial College London, alongside technical stakeholders active in Gaza's rehabilitation sector, under the patronage of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The evidence behind the program
Gaza Rehab Care is grounded in field research and analysis of rehabilitation need in Gaza. Our publications are available to partners, donors and the wider sector.
Rebuilding Rehabilitation Services for Amputees in Gaza
A field assessment of rehabilitation need across Gaza and a framework for rebuilding rehabilitation services for people with limb loss, structured around the WHO health system building blocks.
Read the report →Forthcoming
A second publication taking the framework further, toward a sustainable, Palestinian-led system of care.
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Behind every person with limb loss is a Palestinian rehabilitation system built to sustain itself and outlast the crisis.
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