The Gaza Mental Health Foundation Inc. was formed in 2001 to support the critically important work of providing mental health services for the people in the Gaza Strip, especially the children who are the region’s future.
Mental Health Crisis: Two Years Living Through The Genocide, October 7, 2025
Two years after the genocidal war, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) releases its new report entitled “The Mental Health Crisis in the Gaza Strip: Two Years of Living Under Genocide.” This report exposes another invisible wound-one that silently devours the souls of people, threatening both their present and their future.
The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the deteriorating mental health crisis in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing genocide since October 2023, which has inflicted devastating psychological consequences on the population, affecting children, women, the elderly, persons with disabilities, the displaced, frontline workers, and survivors of detention and torture.
To read more, download the report here (Arabic version / النسخة العربية).
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Mental Health in Gaza in early 2025
On January 16, 2025 Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, head of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), was interviewed by Gwyn Daniel, a UK family therapist, about the work which GCMHP is currently undertaking in the Gaza Strip. Dr. Lama Khouri introduces the latest GCMHP report, There, People Suffer and Die and journalist Victoria Brittain, who wrote about the report in an article entitled “Miraculously, therapeutic care for Gaza’s deeply traumatized people is happening,” frames the discussion.
Drawing 1 by Hala, 10 year old girl, Al-Zaytoun, Gaza City
(Image from the latest GCMHP report)
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