Analysis: A New Mental Health Crisis Is Raging in Gaza

By Yasser Abu Jamei for Scientific American “Have you ever seen a six-month old baby with exaggerated startle response?” One…

WAFA News: GENEVA, Thursday, February 25, 2021 (WAFA) – “It happens nearly every night. Without warning, without a search warrant,…

Ashraf, a 17 years old Palestinian youth from Arroub refugee camp, to the north of Hebron in the occupied West…

Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC) have announced their…

Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Palestinian detainees in Al Maskobiyya Israeli Prison in Jerusalem are facing bad treatment, torture and…

Ramallah 10-31-2023 WAFA – The Ministry of Health said that the toll of slain and wounded among our people as…

JERUSALEM, Monday, March 13, 2023 (WAFA) – An Israeli court today extended the isolation of Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows up with deep concern the health condition of prisoner Ahmad Manarsa (21),…

The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee stated, Friday, that a political prisoner, held by Israel, is facing profoundly serious health…

Video by Shahed Ali IYAD AL-JERJAWI Former prisoner “I got arrested on the 13th of June, 2011. I was on…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Friday, the headquarters of the Work Health Committees in Sateh Marhaba area, in the al-Biereh city,…

Israeli forces, on 13 February, 2019,  demolished a Wastewater Screening Station  and other Palestinian owned facilities in the Bir ‘Ona…

by Hanin Elholy, for Days of Palestine It was a roasting July afternoon, and the reverberations of bombs were so…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its report, Right to Health: Crossing barriers to access health in the occupied Palestinian territory…

Palestinian environmental networks and professional unions call on MedPine to relocate its conference outside of Israel and urge invited speakers to…

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territory, occupied since 1967, Professor Michael Lynk, has found Israel…

Whether swimming at the beach or trying to get urgent medical care, children in the Gaza Strip were boxed out…

On Monday, 22 May 2017, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop on the “Shortage of Medicines…

 Head of the Health and Environmental sector in Gaza’s administrative committee, Basem Naeem, stated Sunday that the banning the entry…

On the occasion of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, marked by the UN since 1977[1], WHO launched…

This last Friday, more than 200 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank and in the…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that 233 Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire, on Friday, including 118 who…

Palestinian Health Minister, Dr. Jawad Awwad, has reported that the Thursday Israeli assassination of Abdullah Azzam Shalalda, in the Hebron…

Since October 1st, 30 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 1500 others injured by Israeli troops, according to the…

The Palestinian Health Minister, Dr. Jawad Awwad, announced on Thursday that Israeli attacks targeting Palestinian protesters in the West Bank…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) in the occupied West Bank has reported that at least 129 Palestinians have been…

A United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) report on Palestine’s Gaza Strip concludes that infant mortality has risen for…

Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, a Palestinian researcher specialized in Detainees’ Affairs, stated that Israel is deliberately inflicting physiological harm on Palestinian political…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza issued a report stating that Israeli missiles and shells, fired against the Palestinian…

A health disaster of widespread proportions is rapidly unfolding in the Gaza Strip as a direct result of the ongoing…

A Thursday agreement reached to form a Palestinian-Israeli team to address common environmental issues between the two sides, said Israel…

[December, 2013] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concerns over critical shortages in medical supplies and electricity for Gaza…

Palestinian researcher and specialist in the detainees affairs, Fuad Al Khuffash, prepared and published a comprehensive report on the Palestinian…

The number victims of yesterday’s environmental disaster in Um El-Naser (Bedouin) village increased to five after rescue crews recovered the…

At first sight, the peaceful scene at a west Beirut fishing harbour seems far removed from the conflict that has…

Dr. Basim Na’im, the Palestinian Minister of Health, reported on Saturday evening that the Israeli army killed 40 Palestinians, including…

PENGON is a local environmental organization with several local and foreign experts working under is auspices. As the news focuses…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Mohannad al-Kharraz, said that detainee Mohammad Yasser al-Ja’bary, from Nablus, attempted suicide by trying…

United Nations: Speakers in Security Council Condemn Deadly Israeli Airstrikes on Aid Workers in Gaza, Urge Immediate Action to End…

Netanyahu in denial about famine in Gaza, as more die of starvation; Israeli forces again opened fire on aid-seekers, killing…

Stories of loss and grief: At least 17,000 children are estimated to be unaccompanied or separated from their parents in…

If Americans Knew – IsraelPalestineNews: Israel is “obligated” to bring food into the Gaza Strip; Gazan journalist killed; Israel approves…

On 21 December, heavy Israeli bombardments from air, land, and sea, continued across most of the Gaza Strip. Intense ground…

Israeli strikes from air, land, and sea intensified over the past 24 hours across most of Gaza, alongside ground battles…

According to a report put out on November 4th by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the…

The following is a report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied…

AMMAN, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)), said today that the Israeli measures…

Derry City, Ireland. November 29, 2022: for IMEMC NEWS, Niall Ó Brolcháin: A large crowd was in attendance on Tuesday,…

GENEVA (24 August 2022) – UN experts* today condemned Israel’s escalating attacks against Palestinian civil society in the occupied West…

GENEVA, July 14, 2022 (WAFA) – UN human rights experts today urged the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release Ahmad…

GAZA CITY, Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (WAFA) – Fifteen years of life under blockade has left four out of five…

The Austrian government signed, on Thursday, a treaty with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (30…

On Tuesday, December 7th, 2021, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet gave a briefing to the UN Committee on…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Tomorrow, 03 December, marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities that was…

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 (Doctors Without Borders) – Nearly three months after an escalation in violence in the Gaza Strip…

JORDAN VALLEY, Monday, July 12, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today demolished a water pond near Bardala village in the northern…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Protection of Civilians Report | June 15-28, 2021 Highlights Israeli…

May 24, 2021 – (Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) On 22 April 2021, representatives of 28 Palestinian families…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA): Escalation in the Gaza…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued the following statement about the recent escalation in…

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned over reports of an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases among Palestinian…

By Anjuman Rahman for Middle East Monitor: They destroyed the front door, entered my room, covered my face with a bag,…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: Apartheid is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual criminal responsibility and State responsibility…

On 29 August 2020, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN)…

Press release: Civil Society Organize Webinar on Collective Punishment in Gaza:  Mezan Center For Human Rights: On Wednesday, 15 July…

By Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle What if the Coronavirus reaches the besieged Gaza Strip? While the question carries…

Rakan Abed El Rahman for Middle East Eye Experts say Israeli policies and wars are to blame for a deepening…

By Hilo Glazer for Haaretz I know exactly how many knees I’ve hit, says Eden, who completed his service in…

by Jeremy Wildeman for Al Shabaka Palesinian Policy Network Overview Funds from Western donors have comprised the majority of the more than $36.2…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned over the increasing crisis of medicine shortage in the Gaza Strip…

“Beyond the Frontlines” is a remarkable documentary, about Palestine, from France, directed by Alexandra Dols. The Jerusalem-based psychiatrist, Dr. Samah Jabr,…

Ref: 19/2019 – Date: 14 February 2019: International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD), which was founded in 2002 by Childhood Cancer…

On Wednesday 6 February, Fares Mohammed Baroud, age 51, from al-Shati’ refugee camp in western Gaza City, died from health complications…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is warning of the deteriorating situation of the Palestinian patients in the Gaza…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East  (UNRWA) will not renew the contracts…

Israel has intensified its crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip by closing the only crossing for commercial goods. Former Gaza…

Today, as of 20:00, Israeli forces injured 56 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH), during…

More than 6,000 Palestinian children gathered at Central Square in Gaza City, on Sunday, to call on the world to…

Summary, December 2017 – B’Tselem Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories  Power disparities between populations are among the…

11/24/17 | International Solidarity Movement | Nablus Team Six residential buildings in the Kufr Aqab neighbourhood, in Jerusalem, are currently…

by Gada al-Haddad, Al Jazeera/Days of Palestine As Gaza marks three years since the Israeli assault that devastated the Strip and left…

June 26, 2015 .Salem Saoody, 30, is getting his daughter Layan (L) and his niece Shaymaa 5 (R) in the…

Dr. Mohamed Shatat is the Head of the Dialysis Department of al-Shifa hospital, located in Gaza City, whose working conditions…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is strongly concerned over an unprecedented deterioration of the electricity crisis in the…

In a statement issued over the weekend, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbühl marked 50 years of occupation of the Palestinian territory…

“Stop the war on our children’s minds.” The conference took place in the Grand Park Hotel on the 15th and…

The Government of Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Agency Cooperation (SIDA), has contributed $6.6 million to the United Nations…

United States Consul-General to Jerusalem Donald Blome announced on Thursday a contribution of $51.6 million from the United States to…

Michaela Whitton (AM) :  A British MP has died after being shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency.…

A joint investigation launched by Israeli rights groups, into practices in Israel’s Shikma prison, has revealed — once again —…

Taghreed has never been outside Gaza. Her family was exiled to the impoverished Gaza Strip when Palestine was ethnically cleansed,…

Doctors Without Borders (MSF), on Thursday, condemned Israel’s undercover arrest raid committed earlier that day at al-Ahli hospital, in the…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday,…

A 24-year old woman was killed by Israeli troops Monday morning at a military checkpoint in the West Bank when…

Gaza Community Mental Health Program’s (GCMHP) Deputy Director General for Professional Affairs Taysir Diab Thursday said around 51% of Gaza’s…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for…

Israeli authorities have shut a Palestinian health NGO in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat, Thursday, under the 1948 Prevention…

Representative of Palestinian minor prisoners held in Israeli Ofer prison, Abd al-Fattah Dawla, reported Sunday that the Israeli military courts…