Trauma crosses Gaza's generations

A wake-up call to the West's therapists.

The Electronic Intifada

@Haggai writes: "The dread Israelis are feeling after today's assault, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long."
https://www.972mag.com/gaza-attack-context-israelis/

#Gaza #israel #Hamas #normalization #settlers

Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context

The dread Israelis are feeling, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long.

+972 Magazine

"On Monday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that it had documented the execution of dozens of Palestinians by the Israeli army during their displacement from Gaza City and its north to central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, even though they did not pose any threat": https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-army-kills-elderly-taking-pr-photo-safe-corridor

#gaza #warCrimes #warOnPalestine #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #MEE

Israeli army kills elderly Palestinian after taking PR photo on 'safe corridor'

Bashir Hajji's granddaughter says he was shot in the head and back after a photo showing soldiers helping him was taken

Middle East Eye
Ayat Al-Khadour records her final video documenting the bombardment of Beit Lahia

Palestinian journalist Ayat Al-Khadour testified to the bombardment of her neighbourhood ‘Beit Lahia’ in her final video. ‘They used phosphorus and thermobaric bombs’ Al-Khadour said. Al-Khadour recorded the video knowing...

Middle East Monitor

"The Washington Post made the remarkable admission that Israel attacked al-Shifa Hospital to “pressure Hamas to reach a deal on hostage releases.” This admits Israel is using hospitals as a bargaining chip, talk of Hamas bunkers and weapons cache is a lie, and the attacks on hospitals are then deliberate state terrorism and war crimes."

Arun Gupta: https://arunnews.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-israel-is-attacking

#stateViolence #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #alShifa #media #fakeNews #hostages #Gaza #israelGaza #propaganda #israel

The real reason Israel is attacking Gaza’s hospitals

Corporate media fail to report that Israel's war on hospitals has nothing to do with Hamas

Life, the universe, and most things
Gaza’s children: Victims of war or superheroes?

To be a child in Gaza is living on borrowed time. The footage of a Palestinian fetus dead in a Gaza hospital last month, after the mother was killed in...

Middle East Monitor

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor : "The Israeli army has repeatedly targeted several cemeteries in the Gaza Strip, leaving widespread destruction, vandalising some graves, and stealing dead bodies"

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6032/Israel-demolishes-Gaza-cemeteries,-confiscates-dead-bodies-of-Palestinians @palestine @military @idf

#mourning #grievability #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnPalestine #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #bulldozers #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter

Israel demolishes Gaza cemeteries, confiscates dead bodies of Palestinians

Israel demolishes Gaza cemeteries, confiscates dead bodies of Palestinians

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Israel's intense Gaza bombardment continues with al-Shifa hospital a 'bloodbath'

Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least 90 Palestinians on Sunday, with another 12 dying in bombings in the central city of Deir al-Balah

Middle East Eye

“Untreated sewage and overcrowding are leading to the rapid spread of disease, while 3/4 of the Strip’s hospitals have stopped functioning.”

“There is nowhere to treat sick children, leading to potential long-term impacts on children’s health”.

+972 reports: https://www.972mag.com/gaza-health-crisis-disease/ @palestine

#epidemics #cholera #StateTerrorism #terrorism #punishment #revenge #Gaza #war #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #bombardments #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide

Gaza’s health crisis ‘catastrophic,’ say Palestinian experts

Untreated sewage and overcrowding are leading to the rapid spread of disease, while three-quarters of the Strip’s hospitals have stopped functioning.

+972 Magazine

"The 2nd phase of targeting schools and shelters accompanied #IDF’s ground invasion of the #Gaza Strip. Dozens of testimonies have been received regarding the Israeli army’s storming of these #schools after destroying their walls and gates with tanks, amidst intense gunfire and tank shells.

"Israel’s forces have carried out field executions at several of these schools, such as the “Shadia Abu Ghazala” school in Jabalia, where nine bodies were found."

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6056/Israeli-forces-turn-UN-run-schools,-shelter-centres-into-settings-for-brutal-crimes-against-civilians @israel #terrorism

Israeli forces turn UN-run schools, shelter centres into settings for brutal crimes against civilians

Israeli forces turn UN-run schools, shelter centres into settings for brutal crimes against civilians

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Israeli army kills journalist Heba al-Abdallah and her family

The journalist was killed in a missile strike on her home in Khan Younis in southern Gaza

Middle East Eye
On the urgent need for provisional measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza: Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh’s presentation to the International Court of Justice

Irish barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh made international headlines for her stirring presentation to the International Court of Justice on the urgent need to protect Palestinians from Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. Read her full speech here.

Mondoweiss

"Displaced multiple times by the war, many in Gaza's southernmost city are living in makeshift shelters without sufficient food, water, or blankets."

#972Mag: https://www.972mag.com/rafah-gaza-palestinians-displaced-tents/ @palestine

#camps #Rafah #revenge #Gaza #war #warOnPalestine #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #children #families #family #disease #mentalHealth #UNRWA

‘Tents everywhere’ as Rafah struggles to hold a million Palestinians

Displaced multiple times by the war, many in Gaza's southernmost city are living in makeshift shelters without sufficient food, water, or blankets.

+972 Magazine
In Gaza, Israel has turned water into a weapon of mass destruction

By denying Palestinians safe water, Israel has created an unparalleled health crisis and risks causing irreversible ecological damage.

+972 Magazine
'So many children': A British doctor's testimony from a Gaza hospital

Dr Deborah Harrington spent two weeks in the al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital where she says she saw children with fractures, amputations and open chest wounds

Middle East Eye
Israeli tanks and snipers encircle Khan Younis, shooting 'anyone who moves'

'Catastrophic' scenes in Gaza's south as wounded left unattended and displaced people ordered by Israel to move from one unsafe area to the next

Middle East Eye
Laying the groundwork for Gaza’s permanent exodus

With Egypt reportedly preparing for an influx of refugees and UNRWA on the brink of collapse, Israel’s second Nakba fantasies could soon become reality.

+972 Magazine

"A Vashti guide to understanding the unthinkable"

"This includes analysis of the political forces that have brought Israel to the brink of annihilating the last remnants of Gazan habitability, while also touching upon the ways in which our own moral and political entanglements remain complicit in unfolding events"
https://vashtimedia.com/2024/02/23/formats/editorial/rafah-reader-gaza-israel/ @palestine

#genocide #Gaza #Rafah #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #stateTerrorism #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #israel #OngoingNakba

Rafah: A reader

Nearly 30,000 Gazans have been killed in Israel’s genocidal assault, and now we hear the worst may be yet to come. Vashti editors share the materials helping us understand the situation on the ground and the world letting it happen.

Vashti

"Just as various international humanitarian and state-building interventions into Mogadishu have stifled true political alternatives, thus leaving extremist groups such as al-Shabaab and the Islamic State to fill the void with their own nihilistic projects, so too may we come to find that whatever emerges from the ruins of Gaza will be equally as monstrous, if not more so."

Dr Matthew Gordon: https://vashtimedia.com/2024/04/05/formats/the-pickle/israel-gaza-somalia-mogadishu/

#abyss #JewishSupremacy #israel #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe

The Pickle: Israel's Mogadishu-fication of Gaza

Matthew Gordon reflects on what a reductive analogy can tell us about the unfolding catastrophe.

Vashti
Cementing its military footprint, Israel transforms Gaza’s geography

As Israel expands a buffer zone and erects army bases in the Strip, Palestinians fear the permanent loss of their homes and land.

+972 Magazine
‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza

Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please.

+972 Magazine

Native care is needed

"The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network […] urgently calls for: […] Prioritization of Mental Health Support: Comprehensive psychosocial support must be integrated into all humanitarian aid efforts to address the widespread psychological distress. This needs to be led by those Mental Health Providers within Gaza, such as GCMHN, who are placed to respond to the needs of the population they live among. Capacity building within Gaza which, as the report mentions, has 3,000 unemployed psychologists rather than interventions from outside trauma specialists, has the best chance of restoring agency and dignity, both vital components of mental wellbeing."

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/mobilizing-global-support-for-gazas-mental-health-emergency/ @psychology @socialpsych @health

#care #mentalCare #health #mentalHealth #publicHealth #medicine #medics #hospital #professionnals #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe #children #childhood #trauma #practice

Mobilizing global support for Gaza’s mental health emergency

A new Gaza Community Mental Health Programme report paints a stark picture of the severe mental health crisis unfolding in Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli genocide.

Mondoweiss

Yumna Patel @yumna wrote: "Over the past year, we have seen entire cities reduced to rubble, entire families and bloodlines wiped out, and global silence in the face of mass starvation and the targeted bombing of civilians."

One Year of Genocide: Special Coverage by @mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/one-year-of-genocide-special-coverage/ @military @palestine 🧵

#OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #JewishSupremacy #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe

One Year of Genocide: Special Coverage

Mondoweiss’s special coverage marks one year since the al-Aqsa Flood attack of October 7 and the start of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Mondoweiss
Why Netanyahu chose to blow up the ceasefire and return to war

Israel was backed into a corner on the eve of its return to war because Hamas was forcing Netanyahu to honor the ceasefire deal he had signed. Confronted with his own internal political challenges, Netanyahu’s only choice was to blow up the deal.

Mondoweiss

On the neocons all over again – Amir Tibon in Haaretz:
The experiment would ‘go something like this: American companies will begin operating in southern Gaza, under the supervision of the Israeli military, in a "humanitarian compound" surrounded by barbed wire. Two million Gazan citizens will be concentrated in this compound to get food and aid, while Israel will take over the rest of Gaza and use the pressure put on Gaza's population in order to topple the Hamas regime.’
(…)
‘If all this sounds familiar to you, that means you've probably lived through the Iraq War and the "happy" days of American contractors operating under military guidance in an attempt to "separate the local population from the terrorists" and replace the regime, but it's unclear with what exactly.’
(…)
‘Two decades later, they are promoting their Gaza plan in similar fashion – and so far, despite all the rage about the "neocons disrupting his agenda," the president seems to buy it.’

https://www.arnongrunberg.com/now/blog/18004-many

#GazaMethod #ongoingGenocide #OngoingNakba #continuousNakba #GazaGenocide #Hamas #neocons #invasion #occupation #collectivePunishment #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael #DefundIsrael #method #procedure #USWars #allies #proZionism #erasure #deletion #obliteration #elimination #eradication #crushing #grinding #settlerColonialism #colonialism

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