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| Music and Poetry for Gaza Saturday 21 December doors at 6pm, programme from 7pm The Jago, 440 Kingsland Road E8 4AA Dive into an evening of soulful music, food, and artistic merch at the Cultural Fest for Gaza! https://buymeacoffee.com/coffeeforwatermelon/e/341234 UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Next meeting: Monday 30 December at 1pm (UK time) There will not be a meeting on Monday 23 December This is an open space where people exchange their emotional responses with a view to remaining resilient amidst a constant stream of distressing news. Please email ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to the meeting. Webinar to launch the new report from the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme Thursday 16 January 6pm- 8pm (UK time) Further details to follow. The important and comprehensive new report called “’There, People Suffer And Die’: A Qualitative Analysis Report 2024” is available here: https://www.gcmhp.org/publications/4/220 Stories of Food and Seeds of Resistance Thursday 16 January from 6.30pm to 8.30pm P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton St, London NW1 1JD Public conversation in the Palestine: Repair & Return programme. This session discusses Palestine’s embattled food and farming heritage, and considers food sovereignty as a popular form of Palestinian self-determination. https://p21.gallery/node/384 “Within a single week, the family “El kahlout” lost more than fifty martyrs. Among them was my sister’s family, now completely erased from the civil registry—parents, children, grandchildren—wiped away. This is how annihilation unfolds, and this is how we bite down on our wounds and move forward with life, distributing hope as we go. Perhaps God will protect those of us who remain, and preserve what little is left to us: faith and reason.” Dr Said Al Kahlout This awful message is from Dr Said Al Kahlout, Psychiatrist, Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza. Many subscribers will have seen Dr Said at the recent Cafe Palestine, or in the recording, reading his poem Have You Seen Hunger? https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/have-you-seen-hunger/ The UK-Palestine Mental Health Network has sent a message of condolence to Dr Said.  ‘We can’t give up on 1 million children’: the charity bringing psychological first aid to Gazans Dr Yasser Abu Jamei was one of the speakers at the recent Cafe Palestine. He is the psychiatrist in charge of running the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme. Dr Abu Jamei and the GCMHP featured in the Guardian as one of their 2024 charity appeal partners, supported through War Child. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/07/we-cant-give-up-on-1-million-children-the-charity-bringing-psychological-first-aid-to-gazans Donate here: https://guardian.ctdonate.org/ War Child shares first study of psychological impact of war on vulnerable children in Gaza. A first of its kind report – written by Gaza based Community Training Centre for Crisis Management, who are supported by War Child Alliance – lays bare the shocking psychological impact of the ongoing war on children in Gaza. https://www.warchild.org.uk/news/war-child-shares-first-study-psychological-impact-war-vulnerable-children-gaza We Must Kill Her Very Young: On childhood and genocide in Palestine An essay by Mira Mattar, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Steering Group member. https://decolonialhacker.org/article/we-must-kill-her-very-young Sumud Podcast with Dr Lara Sheehi Dr. Sheehi is the Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Dr. Sheehi shares her experiences growing up in Lebanon during the civil war, navigating the complexities of identity and mental health in the diaspora, and her influential work in psychoanalysis. She delves into the role of psychoanalysis in Palestine, the psychological warfare faced by Palestinians, and the profound concept of one’s soul or psyche as a form of resistance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWCv0bNbp8&list=PLGbkNTLxpiL5aASze17xi9rwvA5BoEyeo&index=1 Enduring the Trauma of Genocide The Chris Hedges Report with Gabor Maté While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician and expert in trauma and childhood development seeks to make sense of the psychology, trauma and reason behind the actions of Palestinians, IDF soldiers, WWII survivors, Nazis and even himself. https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/enduring-the-trauma-of-genocide-w?r=2otfwk Learning to see in the dark This article examines the intimacy and sense of responsibility created by the fact that Palestinian journalists in Gaza are telling their own stories. We know some by their first names – Motaz, Plestia, Bisan, Hind – and they have brought us into unbearable intimacies. We watch as they weep over friends and colleagues killed, talking to us as we hear bombs and shouts around them. https://overland.org.au/2024/12/learning-to-see-in-the-dark/ I will serve my people as long as I am breathing, if we are going to die, we will not die in silence, if we are going to live, we are going to live in dignity. From Bisan in Gaza https://x.com/bisanowda01/status/1868729820383002813 Written evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into Israel/ Palestine The UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, jointly with the Palestine Trauma Centre UK, is submitting written evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into Israel/ Palestine. Other interested organisations can also do so here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/78/foreign-affairs-committee/news/203961/foreign-affairs-committee-launches-inquiry-into-israelipalestinian-conflict/ FEATURED ACTION Demand the UK suspend all arms transfers to Israel now https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/suspend-arms-transfers-now Want to take Action? Our website has a list of up to date petitions, letter writing campaigns and other ways you can express your solidarity. https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ Think it’s all hopeless? Look at this message from the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. ***NEW*** Together we are ending this genocide! BDS impacts in the second half of 2024 BDS is working! Thanks to your support, our ongoing struggle to end Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is bearing fruit. https://bdsmovement.net/BDS-Impacts-Second-Half-2024 The UK-Palestine Mental Health Network is one of 19 national mental health networks working under the umbrella of the Palestinian-led Palestine-Global Mental Health Network.  |
الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصحة النفسية 