How are the people of the Gaza Strip, who have been displaced innumerable times and suffered staggering losses, coping with nine months of Israel’s military assault on every aspect of life?
The first detailed report of the mental health impact of the war has just been released by the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP).
Nine Months of Israel’s War on Gaza: the Mental Health Impacts and the GCMHP’s Response represents another challenge to the international community to end the inhumanity of this devastating military aggression that threatens the wellbeing of future Palestinian generations.
The report is researched and written by GCMHP staff who have since October 2023 seen two of their three centres destroyed, the third damaged, and three of their colleagues, all female psychologists, killed.
It details current work and future initiatives to mitigate the mental suffering of Gaza’s 2.2 million people and blunt the traumatic impact on future generations of their wounded society…..more
