“When I die, will they put me in a grave with my mum and dad?”

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National March for Palestine
Saturday 21 September at 12 noon in Liverpool
Assemble at  St Georges Hall Plateau, opposite Lime Street Station and march to the gates of the Labour party conference

The role of Palestinian schools in healing childhood wounds: psychological support for war-affected generations
A short opinion piece by Samah Jabr, Head of Mental Health Unit, Palestinian Ministry of Health
The article covers areas in which schools can promote the mental health of children and practical recommendations for Palestinian schools.
The original article is in Arabic but many modern browsers, including Chrome, offer a simple feature to translate the page into English.
https://www.alquds.com/ar/posts/133532
Can You See Me? Arab Immigrants’ Quests for Identity and Belonging
An article on Psychotherapy.net by Lama Khouri who co-founded the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and sits on the board of the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network.
In this in-depth piece, a Palestinian analyst shares her poignant experiences as an immigrant, and the personal and professional challenges they brought.
https://www.psychotherapy.net/article/can-you-see-me-arab-quest-for-identity

Two volunteers of the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) killed in Gaza
PTC (UK) has announced the tragic killing of two of its volunteers who were working with children in Gaza.
https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/two-palestine-trauma-centre-uk-volunteers-killed/

Palestine In Mental Health – calling all mental health workers, have you felt managed, disciplined or silenced on Palestine?
From Tarek Younis, Racial Justice Researcher, Healing Justice LDN
Please participate in an interview to explore the racial politics of our mental health systems/ experiences of racism and how this has impacted mental health workers. Share challenges, collate and build a picture of this experience within these systems. Full confidentiality and anonymity is ensured. Nothing will shared without consent. You will receive £30 payment for your participation.
To join send an email to tarek@healingjusticeldn.org

Israel wages massive military attack on Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, under cover of its Gaza genocide
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement calls for maximizing grassroots and civil society pressure on all states, the United Nations, and regional bodies. Channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS action and build pressure and people power to stop the genocide and to eventually help Palestinians dismantle Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonial apartheid, the root cause of this oppression and unspeakable violence.
https://bdsmovement.net/Israel-Wages-Massive-Military-Attack-West-Bank

Urgent action needed to protect Palestinian farm
The Tent of Nations near Bethlehem is one of the last Palestinian hilltop farms in the West Bank that is still in Palestinian hands. The farm is under immediate and growing threat from settler activity. The Nassar family that has owned the farm since Ottoman times has two crucial court cases coming up on Wednesday 11 September and Tuesday 8 October.
The Friends of Tent of Nations UK has produced a briefing pack and template letter to MPs to raise awareness about the farm and the upcoming court cases.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FxFuQyWPEYcOk0peDRdbdvSsNupnqgvPRjUyTRKbjaA/edit

Questions from Gaza’s children
Members of the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) team in Gaza have spoken about the questions their children ask of them as they endure nearly eleven months of bombardment, death, injury, starvation and displacement. We asked if they would like to send these questions out to the wider world and they have responded with the attached list from children. They are of course utterly heart-breaking and we want to do them justice and show our accountability to the children in whatever ways we can, by sending them to our elected representatives, to all children’s charities and through our international networks. Please add your voices. Please add your voices. Those of you who work with children will, we are sure, have ideas about how to share them with colleagues and with mental health directorates.
Please share any thoughts you have about how to support this campaign to demand an immediate ceasefire to safeguard the children of Gaza who are being forced to confront and question such iniquities.