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After the 9-day incursion that took place in Jenin from 28 August to 6 September, MSF teams resumed their psychological first-aid activities in the refugee camp.  

 

Salwa and Rahma visit the camp weekly to meet the residents and make assessments on their mental health and evolution.  

 

“The level of destruction keeps becoming bigger, and the psychological impact is huge” explains Rahma, “residents believe that what is happening in Gaza will happen as well in the camp. Many people, and especially women and children, suffer from symptoms of psychological trauma, and develop eating and sleeping problems like recurrent nightmares and anxiety due to the fear of incursions which often happen at night”  

 

People cannot feel safe given the brutality of the incursions and the impossibility to foresee when the next one will come. In this context, psychological treatment is challenging as the trauma is ongoing.
Salwa and Rahma visit the camp weekly to meet the residents and make assessments of their mental health . Palestine, September 2024.
© Alexandre Marcou/MSF

“Inflicting harm and denying care” in the West Bank

Salwa and Rahma visit the camp weekly to meet the residents and make assessments of their mental health . Palestine, September 2024.
© Alexandre Marcou/MSF
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Israeli forces and settlers have increased the use of extreme physical violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Palestine, since the all-out war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to a new report by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). In total, at least 870 Palestinians have been killed and over 7,100 injured between October 2023 and January 2025.

According to our new report, Inflicting harm and denying care, the escalation of violence in the West Bank has severely hindered access to healthcare and is part of a pattern of systemic oppression by Israel which has been described by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as amounting to racial segregation and apartheid.

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