UKPALMHN mailing 23 July

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UKPALMHN Solidarity Space
Monday 28 July 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 contact ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to this meeting.

Cafe Palestine – Listen to Gaza notes of meeting
Cafe Palestine – Listen to Gaza was a joint event between the Palestine Trauma Centre UK (https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk/) and the UK Palestine Mental Health Network which took place on 12 July. The full minutes (see link below) contain testimonies from the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) therapy team in Gaza. They have witnessed and endured the ongoing genocide and in this meeting had opportunities to share what they see, feel and think with their supporters in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/listen-to-gaza-12-7-2025-minutes/

British surgeon warns Gaza patients dying from wounds due to starvation
Source: NHS surgeon Professor Nick Maynard in The New Arab
Date: 17 July
A British surgeon in Gaza has warned that malnutrition was preventing patients from being able to recover from injuries sustained in the war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/surgeon-warns-gaza-patients-dying-wounds-due-starvation

MAP clinic forced to close
Source: Medical Aid for Palestinians
Date: 21 July
Medical Aid for Palestine’s life-saving Solidarity Polyclinic was forced to close after the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders in the southwest areas of Deir al-Balah City. Our colleagues here at MAP were forced to evacuate immediately, unable to relocate all our critical supplies and equipment.
https://www.instagram.com/medicalaidpal/p/DMVoQq0xqZJ/?img_index=1

Detained Gaza doctor Abu Safiya in critical condition, lawyer says
Source: Middle East Eye
Date: 13 July
The health of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, has severely deteriorated in Israeli detention in Israel’s infamous Ofer prison, his lawyer said in a statement on social media. Israeli forces arrested Abu Safiya on 27 December from the hospital in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, which was left out of service following Israeli attacks. All medical staff, patients, and their relatives were taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, forced to strip down to their underwear. Remaining in solitary confinement, Abu Safiya has lost more than 40kg (88 pounds) since his arrest and was reportedly beaten on 24 June, his lawyer said. He was denied medical care despite requesting treatment for injuries to his ribs, face and back, as well as for irregular cardiology test results.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lawyer-says-detained-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safia-critical-condition

Imagine (new campaign video)
Source: Healthworkers4Palestine (projection onto St Thomas’s Hospital)
Date: 17 July
On 14 July, the walls of St Thomas’ Hospital lit up with a powerful projection: an animated film imagining what it would look like if the assault on Gaza was happening here in London.
“Imagine your city under siege. Foreign tanks roll through your streets. Fire rains down from above—drones, airstrikes, F-16s”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMLgD8fOYKI/

Psychoanalytic Hub for Online Liberatory Education (new web resource)
Source: P-HOLE
Date: July 2025
Let’s face it: traditional models of psychoanalysis have too often failed minoritised people. Sometimes this is a matter of the unreflective ways psychoanalytic theory and practice presume whiteness, heterosexuality, binary gender, non-disabled status, and middle-class (if not upper-middle-class) economic background. This can result in epistemic and ethical gaps in which non-normative subjects speak but cannot be heard within the terms of traditional psychoanalysis – whether as patients, candidates, or colleagues. When psychoanalysts cannot reckon with the social context that is already in the consulting room or the educational institute, they implicitly uphold systems of domination. They also diminish the extraordinary capacity and complexity of psychoanalysis to move in the spaces between outside and inside, the social and the psychic.
https://p-hole.com/

ACTIONS
Our Featured Action is available below and also on our dedicated Actions page. In the past 6 weeks we have added 7 new, relevant actions to our Action page.
https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/

FEATURED ACTION
Red Line for Gaza
Source: Oxfam UK
Date: July 2025
A digital, online action
Starving people. Killing civilians. Targeting children. An entire population could be facing erasure. We have all watched in horror as Israel crosses red line after red line in Gaza. Together we say: enough. Let’s speak out, in our masses, right now.
Your photo will help create a powerful image we’ll share during upcoming days of action for Gaza – a clear message from people across the country: this is our red line. This isn’t just symbolic. It’s our collective voice against the horrors being inflicted on people in Gaza – a public stand against the UK’s role, and a demand for justice.
https://oxfamapps.org.uk/redline/

EVENTS
Our Events page is updated weekly with events related to Palestine and mental health. As of 23 July, there are 10 up to date events listed.
https://ukpalmhn.com/events/

FEATURED EVENTS
Palestinian Childhoods – Solidarity and Sumud
Monday 1 – Sunday 14 September – Open Daily 10am – 4pm
At UCL East, Marshgate Building, London E20 2AE
An immersive experience to counter the dehumanisation of the Palestinian people. Besides the exhibition, the event includes an international conference, film screening, family day, and fabric arts project.
https://reimaginingchildhoodstudies.com/solidarity_and_sumud_programme/

The Gaza Tribunal
Date: Thursday 4 and Friday 5 September
Source: The Gaza Tribunal
The Tribunal will be streamed live to registered users starting at 10am on Thursday 4 September. It is organised following the refusal by the Government of the call from Jeremy Corbyn to hold an independent inquiry into UK involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza. […] The Tribunal will examine Britain’s role in war crimes perpetrated in Gaza. Hearing from experts and witnesses, the tribunal will establish the full scale of our government’s complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people. The Tribunal will hear from expert witnesses including Palestinians on the ground in Gaza, journalists who have covered the conflict, health and aid workers who have worked in Palestine as well as legal experts and UN officials who have intimate knowledge of the situation.
https://thegazatribunal.uk/

BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS (BDS)A founding aim of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network is to “encourage our colleagues individually and collectively to consider their response to the Palestinian call for boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS).”

Cut all ties with Israel
Source: Francesca Albanese in Jacobin
Date: 17 July
In her address to the Bogotá Conference on 15 July, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese explained why the world’s nations must suspend all ties with Israel. Jacobin republishes her remarks in full
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/albanese-palestine-israel-cut-ties/

Slovenia bans far-right Israeli cabinet Ministers, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir
https://www.instagram.com/p/DMPyZY4TmrI/

Here’s why I won’t be chairing a panel on Violence Against Women and Girls for the NSPCC at the Labour Party Conference in September
Source: Nicola Thorp on Instagram
Date: 18 July
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMQVtjRtega

Belgian court bans further transit of all military equipment to Israel in landmark ruling
Source: 11.11.11, the Flemish coalition for International Solidarity
Date: 17 July
In a groundbreaking ruling, the Brussels Court of First Instance has not only ordered the Flemish government to block a specific container of military equipment but also banned all further transit of military material to Israel.
https://pers.11.be/belgian-court-bans-further-transit-of-all-military-equipment-to-israel-in-landmark-ruling