Palestine
We provide medical and psychological assistance to people affected by the ongoing conflict in Palestine, continuing our long-running mental health programmes on the West Bank and support to victims of burns and trauma in the Gaza Strip.
Our patients have been exposed to critical events, such as witnessing violence, raids on their homes, arrests and deaths of family members, and consequently, they have developed anxiety, stress and sleeping problems.
We run mental health programmes in Hebron, Nablus, Qalqilya, Bethlehem and Ramallah governorates offering psychological and social support to victims of political violence.
In our burns and trauma centres in the Gaza Strip, we treat patients, most of them children. The majority of patients had burns, usually the result of domestic accidents in conflict-damaged homes. There are three centres, in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Bet Lahyia.
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Treating complex gunshot wounds in Gaza - an overwhelming challenge
Gaza
What future for the thousands shot in March of Return protests?
Ana Nery, medical coordinator for Palestine, tells us about the overwhelming challenge of treating patients shot by the Israeli forces during the March of Return protests which began in March 2018 at the border fence in Gaza.
Our teams have seen over 3,000 people in its clinics and continues to follow a massive cohort of patients. Many are unable to find proper treatment for their wounds and risk developing bone infections which, without proper treatment, could result in amputation.
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Mental health in Nablus, Palestine
Mental health
The invisible scars of Palestinians in the West Bank
The Israeli occupation and political in-fighting that have lasted for so many years have profoundly affected, both directly and indirectly, the physical and mental health of Palestinians.
In the West Bank, our teams of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists are working to support and restore the mental health of a people shattered by many years of occupation, violence and restrictions..
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Palestine
Gaza, one year after the protests’ bloodiest day
Project Update
14 May 2019
Palestine
Gaza’s numbing routine of injury and death
Voices from the Field
4 Apr 2019
Palestine
March of Return protestors abandoned after year of suffering
Project Update
28 Mar 2019
Palestine
The challenge of filling gaps in the legs of Gaza’s wounded
Project Update
24 Jan 2019
Palestine
Gazans’ injuries risk permanently shattering lives
Press Release
29 Nov 2018
Mental health
Occupied Minds: "My son is broken inside"
Voices from the Field
10 Oct 2018
Mental health
Occupied Minds: Dealing with one child arrested and then another
Voices from the Field
10 Oct 2018
Mental health
Occupied Minds: Allowing people to regain control of their lives
Voices from the Field
10 Oct 2018
Palestine
“When I sleep, it feels like knives moving through my leg”
Voices from the Field
2 Oct 2018