2023
World Bank: Over half of Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza suffer from depression
“Conflict and unemployment are heavily impacting mental health, organization says; calls for a ‘holistic’ solution.” – The Times of Israel, 16 July 2023
‘We tell them they can still laugh’ – the doctor treating the mental scars of Gaza’s children
The head of a charity in the strip helping people traumatised by the conflict explains why he still has hope for the future. The Observer, 4 June 2023
Yasser Abu Jamei: ‘We try to bring colour into their lives.’ Photograph: Sonja Horsman/The Observer
2022
After 15 years of blockade, four out of five children in Gaza say they are living with depression, grief and fear. Save The Children. Save the Children, 15 June 2022
2020
To see why our work is so crucial, please read The Great March of Return: Lessons from Gaza on Mass Resistance and Mental Health from 
2021
War ends, but the fear does not
‘Wake up screaming’: Gaza’s children traumatised by Israeli war
Thousands of children in Gaza suffer from trauma in the aftermath of the 11-day Israeli onslaught on the besieged enclave.
‘Traumatic Events and PTSD Among Palestinian Children and Adolescents: the Effect of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors’
Published online 2020 Mar 31
“Children do not develop in isolation, they both actively shape and are shaped by the social worlds in which they live. The ecological theory highlights the development of the child within his/her environment and the interaction emerged between the two of them.”
“The exposure to traumatic events, specifically physical injuries, loss of loved ones, immediate risk of life, injury of a family member or friend and losing a family member are the strongest risk factors for PTSD.”
‘Trauma Children in Gaza experience is unlike anywhere else in the world, experts say’
USA Today, May 18, 2021
Israel’s war against Palestinian minds
Mental health is an unreported aspect of the long Israeli war against the Palestinian people. However, even for the lucky few who manage to escape the open-air prison that is the Gaza Strip under Israeli-Egyptian siege, the nightmare does not end. March 19, 2021
2020
Defenseless – The impact of the Israeli military detention system on Palestinian children
Full Lockdown: The tightening of the closure on Gaza under the guise of the pandemic
November 2020
The politics of mental health in Palestine [26 October 2020]
PCHR Concludes Training Course on “Human Rights and Mechanisms to Promote Right to Health” For Health Sector in Rafah [15 October 2020]
Gaza’s health sector at risk as Israel’s week-long airstrikes continue. August 21, 2020
The last 2 weeks have taken a heavy toll on the psychological health of the Gaza Strip, as residents have endured nightly air strikes as well as a blockade against fishing and a ban on fuel imports reducing electricity to 4 – 6 hours a day.
Suicides spike as Gaza’s youth driven to despair [July 31, 2020]
No jobs, no prospects, no hope. A generation of Palestinians in Gaza are growing up in despair. [Read]
Inconclusive Investigations and Psychological Trauma Cultivate Israel’s Impunity [22 July 2020]
Statement on World Refugee Day [20 June, 2020]
The Great March of Return: Lessons from Gaza on Mass Resistance and Mental Health [June 18,2020]
Hundreds of international artists call for end to Gaza blockade [May 19, 2020]
Artists, authors and actors from around the world have demanded an end to Israel’s 14 year old blockade of the Gaza Strip and urged that governments impose a military embargo on Israel until it ends its collective punishment and abides by International law. With most medical supplies barred by the blockade, the Gaza Strip now reportedly has 55 Covid-19 infections and one death from the disease. [Read]
97% of the 2 million people in the Gaza Strip must live without clean water for hygiene and consumption. 98% of the water is contaminated. [May 12, 2020] [Read]
Volume 17, Issue 2 From sumud to intifada: Supporting non‐violent action to enhance mental health [May 7, 2020]
UK Palestine Mental Health Network [April 25,2020]
Video recording of the conversation with psychiatrist Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, offering a mental health professional’s insight into life in Gaza under the combined pressures of the blockade, and the coronavirus pandemic. If you can, please donate to the work of GCMHP. The pandemic is impacting on the resourcing of Palestinian NGOs. View video by using copying and pasting the password 3f#&Z1td
Democracy Now! segment featuring Dr. Tarek Loubani [April 24, 2020]
Dr. Tarek Louban is a Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who returned from a trip to the Gaza Strip last month. Here he describes “a situation of absolute catastrophe”. [Watch]
Excerpt of Letter from United Nations Relief and Works Agency [April 1, 2020]
On behalf of UNRWA USA, thank you for your generous donation of $5,000.00 made on 3/19/2020 from Gaza Mental Health Foundation. This generous investment will support UNRWA’s mental health and psychosocial programs in the Gaza Strip. Gaza Mental Health Foundation received no goods or services in return for this grant. My UNRWA USA colleagues join me in extending our appreciation to you and your board for this partnership.
Podcast interview with Mariam Abualatta, a Project Officer from one of our partner organizations Aisha Association for Women and Child Protection [March 26, 2020]
What life is like in the Gaza Strip in the days since two cases of the coronavirus have been reported. [Listen]
Updates from the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council: Health and Human Rights Media Watch
March 1, 2020 [Read]