Doctors Start Work as UN Estimates 400,000 Gaza Children Need Psychological Care

Newsweek | Filed: 8/15/14 at 2:10 PM Palestinian boy Mohammed Wahdan, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling, receives psychological care at Shifa hospital in Gaza City August 14, 2014. Mohammed Salem/Reuters   In a ward at Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small […]

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#GazaUnderAttack| UNICEF: 400,000 children in Gaza suffer trauma

[ PIC 06/08/2014 – 02:39 PM ] GENEVA, (PIC)– Pernille Ironside, head of the field office run by the UN children’s agency in Gaza, confirmed that more than 400 children have been killed in Israel’s aggression on Gaza, and almost 400,000 others are traumatized and face an “extraordinarily bleak” future. Ironside pointed out that rebuilding […]

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Dozens of Palestinian children traumatised by Israeli airstrike

MEMO | Oct 28, 2013   Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on Monday morning hitting vacant land near a primary school in the north-east of the Gaza Strip. Dozens of children were traumatised by the strike, which Israel claimed was in retaliation for “four rockets” fired towards Ashkelon. A spokesman for the Palestinian health […]

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B’Tselem: Palestinian children tortured to force confession

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 25, 2013 Memo – The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem issued a report on Thursday stating that “Palestinian citizens, mostly minors, have been subjected to harassment and torture at the hands of Israeli interrogators in an attempt to force them to confess to private security offenses related to throwing stones.” […]

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UNRWA: Sharp rise in children suffering post-war traumas in Gaza – With Must See Video

[ PIC 22/01/2013 – 09:49 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The UNRWA said the incidence of psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Gaza Strip has risen by more than 100 percent following the last Israel war. It added that the number of Gazans it was treating from November to December for psychological […]

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#VIDEO | Gaza Struggles to Cope with Psychological Trauma

For who does not understand the need or concept of resistance of Palestine, recommended read: The History of Resistance – The Eagle of Palestine Special Topic – All Israeli Massacres on Palestinians iRemember… – Confirmed Names of Martyrs Occupation 2011 * Special Topic – Ethnic Cleansing Israeli escalation in Gaza – A “cover-up for settlement […]

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VIDEO | Israel’s Psychological Warfare Effects on Children – MUST SEE AND SHARE!

Latest report by UNICEF Impact of Hostilities on Children in Gaza | Rapid Psychosocial Assessment, 2012 (PDF) | UNICEF Dec 2012 For who does not understand the need or concept of resistance of Palestine, recommended read: The History of Resistance – The Eagle of Palestine Special Topic – All Israeli Massacres on Palestinians iRemember… – […]

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#UNICEF: #Gaza children suffer psychological problems due to Israel’s war

[ PIC 02/12/2012 – 01:13 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A survey conducted by the UNICEF showed that the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip affected the psychological health of children very badly. According to the preliminary results of the survey, the Gazan children suffer from different psychological traumas caused by the Israeli aerial and […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | The View from Gaza’s Nonstop ER

Sanaa Kamel | Al Akhbar English | Nov 20, 2012   Gaza hospitals face a growing humanitarian crisis as waiting rooms overflow and supplies dwindle. Al-Akhbar visits Al-Shifaa Hospital to bring us the human faces behind the tragedy. Gaza – The waiting room of Al-Shifaa hospital in Gaza is filled with wailing mothers cradling the […]

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Children’s Day in Khan Younis

by Nathan Stuckey | 10 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Poverty is pervasive in Gaza. After 44 years of occupation, and six years of siege the economy is in tatters. Exporting anything is basically impossible, farming is crippled by the no go zones which encircle Gaza leaving over 30% of agricultural land off […]

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Trauma of Israeli airstrike haunts Gaza family

Maan News Agency | March 22, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The traumatized relatives of a 12-year-old boy killed by an Israeli airstrike say they are scared to leave their homes since his death. “We are scared to go out, and find a part of Ayoub’s body on a tree, in the street, in the garden. […]

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Memories of violence haunt Gaza children

Most of them spending sleepless nights Image Credit: AFP | Wounded Palestinian children receive medical attention at a hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, following an Israeli air raid. By Ahmad Najjar, Correspondent Published: 00:00 March 18, 2012 | Gulfnews Gaza: While a fragile truce between Palestinians and Israelis that […]

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Palestinian children traumatized by Israeli jails: Report

Israeli forces taking an arrested Palestinian child (file photo) PRESS TV – Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:0AM GMT Ninety-eight percent of Palestinian children imprisoned by Israeli regime are exposed to physical or verbal violence during detention and with most of them suffering from post traumatic stress disorder after their release. According to a Monday report […]

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Study: Children struggle to cope after Israeli detention

Maan News Agency | March 21, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinian children struggle with mental health problems and reintegration into society after they are detained by Israel, a new report on child detention says. According to the study released by Save the Children Sweden and YMCA-East Jerusalem on Monday, 90.6 percent of detained […]

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‘Security’ no excuse for holding adolescents in solitary confinement

JFJFP FEBRUARY 28 2012 use of solitary confinement for children Defence for Children International 27.02.12 On 30 January 2012, over 100 prominent professionals, clergy, educators, physicians, academics and artists from the U.S. and Israel sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior officials raising their concerns about the continued use of solitary confinement […]

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