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| UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Next meeting: Monday 6 January at 1pm (UK time) 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 write to ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to this meeting. ‘Hope is a Radical Act’: Reflections on my travels in the Occupied Territory of Palestine with Miranda Pinch Thursday 9 January at 3pm UK time https://mailchi.mp/balfourproject/enewsletter-13534605?e=69c36205de 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 National March for Palestine Saturday 18 January Assemble at 12noon at the BBC, Portland Place, London. https://palestinecampaign.org/events/18-january-national-demonstration-for-palestine/ Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions: Extended Study Tour “Visit Palestine/Israel on an Extended Study Tour that will change your life” Monday, 31 March to Thursday, 10 April 2025 https://icahd.org/extended-study-tours/ Israel-Palestine: Unresolved Group Trauma is an Obstacle for Peace Saturday 29 March 202 from 9:00am – 5:30pm Institute of Group Analysis, 1 Daleham Gardens, London NW3 5BY Speakers: Earl Hopper, Gabrielle Rifkind, Dick Blackwell, Sue Einhorn This workshop explores key aspects of man-made human suffering from a psychoanalytic, group-analytic and group attachment standpoint. It argues that, when unresolved trauma remains untreated, it is a fuel for vicious cycles of hatred, terror and destruction, as in the intractable Israel-Palestine conflict. https://members.groupanalysis.org/WorkshopsandEvents/OnlineBooking/BookingForm/tabid/92/EventId/2111/Default.aspx GENOCIDE Amnesty International (5 December 2024) Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/8668/2024/en/ Human Rights Watch (19 December 2024) Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water […] thus committing the crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (19 December 2024) Our first-hand observations […] are consistent with the descriptions […] concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza. https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/life-death-trap-gaza Oxfam (12 November 2024) “… undeniable risk of genocide right now in Gaza” https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/gaza-israel-crisis-sign-petition-call-for-ceasefire-now/ Up to date information direct from mental health practitioners in Gaza Transcript of ‘Talk to Gaza’ Zoom meeting held on 28th December 2024 This webinar included five mental health workers in Gaza and 20 people from the UK and France. Their testimonies are heart-breaking and must strenghten our resolve to take action in 2025 “E.: The situation in Gaza is getting worse and worse. Every day we wait for a ceasefire, but it is not happening. Our children are starving. It is hard to find eggs, fruit, meat. The children’s play is based around the onslaught. For example, my daughter of 3 years imagines soldiers coming and says to her imaginary friends, ‘Let’s run away, hide…’ or ‘There’s a parcel of food coming, let’s go to the door and collect it.’ She creates fantasies about preparing and cooking the food.” Transcript of meeting: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/ptc-uk-talk-to-gaza-december-2024/ Israel’s Genocidal Assault on Gaza: A recent lecture with Raz Segal Raz Segal, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, was among the first in his field to raise the alarm, calling Israel’s response “A Textbook Case of Genocide.” https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/field-notes/israel-assault-on-gaza/ Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns An opinion piece by Jonathan Cook Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-another-expert-report-committing-genocide-west-yawns It’s Bisan from Gaza – This Is how we grow food in a genocide With Israel’s bombardment of Gaza raging on, its blockade of aid trucks has pushed the Strip to the brink of starvation. Food supplies are critically low. Fishing is nearly banned, farmland is decimated, and only 1% of poultry remains. Bisan Owda speaks with fishermen in Rafah risking their lives at sea, a resident raising chickens against the odds, and farmers reclaiming soil from rubble and planting crops in makeshift camps – determined to survive despite unimaginable hardship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adW9vKrCn7I  Kamal Adwan Hospital and Hospital Director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh Humanity Must Not Look Away: A call to protect Gaza’s healthcare system We stand with Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in pleading with the international community: Do not remain silent as Gaza’s healthcare system is systematically destroyed. By Doctors Against Genocide and Palestine Mental Health Networks (including UK-Palestine MHN) https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/humanity-must-not-look-away-a-call-to-protect-gazas-healthcare-system/‘ Executions, sexual assault’: Eyewitnesses describe Israeli raid of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital A new report by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has revealed the shocking conduct of Israeli army forces, including executions and sexual assault, during their recent storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip’s Beit Lahia. https://thecradle.co/articles/executions-sexual-assault-eyewitnesses-describe-israeli-raid-of-gazas-kamal-adwan-hospital Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh’s family for his release https://x.com/GhassanAbuSitt1/status/1873770899910123732 WE WON’T BE SILENT ***Family Therapists for Palestine*** The Chair and Chief Executive of the Association of Family Therapy put out a statement on the ‘anniversary of 7 October’. A number of us wrote a letterthat was published in December 2024 in Context, the magazine of the Association of Family Therapy. In the end we had over fifty signatures. We received a response which many AFT members consider to be completely inadequate and we (FT4P) have had a meeting with AFT board members to raise this. We have encouraged those who object to the response to write to the Context editor expressing their views. If you are a Family Therapist and AFT member, please consider doing this. It matters a lot to have a critical number of voices. Gwyn Daniel is happy to support letter writing if asked: danielgwyn@gmail.com The full correspondence can be seen here: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/correspondence-with-aft-december-2024/ Psychoanalysts Opposing the Palestinian Genocide Open letter from “Psychoanalysts Talk Back” opposing the Palestinian Genocide, addressed to psychoanalytic societies, institutes, and organizations. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychoanalyststalkback/ Open Letter: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRFPUh278gM2qpA2hNl_NCUiukAfXZuxvB3NsC_-rRt8PWYwKxsp5B9NDlIqgxFga9gA2th2fD_nfVw/pub Submission of Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons On behalf of UKPMHN and Palestine Trauma Centre UK, David Harrold and Gwyn Daniel have submitted written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons inquiry into what they call ‘The Israel-Palestine Conflict’. We will publish the text in a subsequent mailing “We are not freeing Palestine, Palestine is freeing us.” Nicole Jenes 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.  |
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