https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-stop-starving-gaza-6-sept/ UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Monday 8 September 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 for a link to this meeting. Activist groups leafleting the current EABCT conference Source: UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Date: August 2025 The European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT) annual conference is currently taking place in Glasgow from 3-6 September. EABCT is a non-profit organisation that brings together 56 member associations and 7 affiliate associations from 43 different countries. https://eabct2025.org/ The EABCT conference in Scotland is hosted by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). Two activist groups attended the opening day of the conference on Wednesday 3 September distributing open letters. Firstly, the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network prepared a leaflet and contacted participating bodies calling on participants to: “… take the opportunity of this large professional conference to follow the plea of Anas al-Sharif <the Al-Jazeera journalist who was recenty killed by Israel>, to speak out against the genocide in Gaza and to demand your professional bodies do likewise” The full text of the leaflet is available here: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/eabct-2025-flyer/ Secondly, the Scottish Palestine Health Partnership, Health Workers 4 Palestine, Psychiatrists for Palestine, and PalMed UK distributed an open letter to the Chair of BABCP, issued the following call: “BABCP as an organisation is committed to improving mental health. In Gaza we see a health crisis of almost unimaginable proportions. The impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the population is likely to reverberate for generations. That is why we ask you, as President of BABCP, to address this matter explicitly and unambiguously in the opening session of the forthcoming conference with a condemnation of the killing by Israel of Palestinians civilians and the deliberate destruction of health infrastructure.” https://ukpalmhn.com/joint-letter-to-babcp-2025/ Activists (including more out of shot) leafleting at the start of the EABCT annual conference in Glasgow. Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Samah Jabr on dealing with trauma in Gaza Source: ABC Radio (Australia) (27 minute audio interview) Date: 21 August Dr Samah Jabr is a world-renowned psychiatrist who has spent over twenty years practising in the West Bank and Gaza. In a powerful interview, she describes the psychological impact the war in Gaza is having on Palestinian children and their families. Dr Jabr says in a place where there are few resources and constant bombardment, collective approaches grounded in the community are the most useful ways to help a traumatised people. She also says maintaining a belief in the fundamental goodness of people is what gives Palestinians a sense of hope and resilience.  https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/dr-samah-jabr/105681292 Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma by Dr Samah Jabr Source: Wakefield Press (Australia) Date: August 2025 (published) A powerful collection of essays that explore the enduring psychological impact of colonial violence on Palestinians and global communities. Drawing from her experience as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Dr Jabr weaves together personal reflections and clinical insights, highlighting themes of resistance, trauma, and healing. The book features a foreword by renowned trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté. https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product/radiance-in-pain-and-resilience/ We’re Sailing To Gaza When the World Stays Silent, We Set Sail. Source: Global Sumud Flotilla Date: August and September The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) is the largest civilian maritime mission organised to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza. Coordinated by grassroots organisers, seafarers, doctors, artists, and solidarity activists from over 40 countries, the flotilla is a nonviolent humanitarian mission responding to the ongoing genocide and siege against the Palestinian people. In August and September 2025, boats of all sizes will set sail from ports around the world, converging toward Gaza to open a humanitarian corridor by sea. The flotilla brings together participants and organisers from the Global March to Gaza, Sumud Convoy, Sumud Nusantara, and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition*, building on decades of Palestinian resistance and international solidarity to shift the global narrative and confront international complicity. #SAILTOGAZA https://globalsumudflotilla.org/ Powerful writing from Gaza Here is some more writing from Dr Saeed, a Mental Health Specialist and Writer in Gaza who is in regular contact with colleagues in the UK. We have featured his eloquent writing before.

3 September 2025
I call upon the television channels that host military analysts to dedicate a portion of their airtime — time carved directly from our lives — not to “battle maps” or “grand strategies” for wars that don’t even exist in reality, but to the details of how we survive, day by day, under fire.
Is it not the right of every citizen in Gaza to know how to deal with the drones that stalk us night and day? Is it not strange that after two years of relentless killing, we still do not know the names of these drones, their functions, or the ways they are used to take our lives?
What should one do if they wake up buried under rubble?
How do we deal with incendiary bombs — do we put them out with water, or does water only make them fiercer?
In which corner of the tent should we sleep to avoid shrapnel? And what if the tent itself is torn into a crater by a massive blast — where do the neighbours begin searching for the remains of those who were just alive a moment ago?
And what if one morning the camp awakens to find tanks at its gates? What must people do to avoid the fate of families crushed beneath their tracks in an instant?
Instead of inflating us into mythical beings who never die, would it not be far more useful for these analysts to share the simple, practical knowledge that might save a single life?
As a citizen living beneath the brutality of fire, I have the right to understand the nature of the death that may soon be mine — so that perhaps I do not die a thousand times each night.
And more than that, I have the right to learn how to live. Speak to us about life — it matters far more to us than speeches about us after we are gone.

ACTIONS
WANT TO TAKE ACTION?
Already in September we have added 6 new actions on our dedicated Actions Page. Take a look and see how you can support campaigning and activism.
https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/

If you know of any future, relevant actions that can be added to the page then please let us know at: ukpalmhn@gmail.com

FEATURED ACTIONS

Open Letter to the Royal College of Nursing
A Call for Urgent Action against the Genocide in Gaza
Source: Nurses for Palestine
Date: September 2025
A call to action: Why is the RCN still silent on the genocide in Gaza? We urge the RCN to use their power,  speak out and pressure our government to take action. We challenge the RCN’s position of “neutrality” and reject this as “the voice of nursing”. 
More information: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5FGr2NFrbT6i9n_a4a-75RRNYtanCNSYYRidBSXdqeWwi2g/viewform
Link to full letter:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PqUUWRxCJic-lCqmj8-GlkuNsfb36AuB08m9EZz7vHE/edit?tab=t.0
 Nurses for Palestine are also running a series of vigils (all at 12 noon)
London – Monday 8 September
Cardiff – Wednesday 10 September
Edinburgh – Thursday 11 September
Belfast – Friday 12 September
Full details:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DODdafZjA7k/

Tell your Councillors: Divest from Companies Enabling Israel’s Genocide
Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Date: September 2025
PSC has sent a legal notice to every council in England & Wales administering a Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund, outlining that they are under a legal obligation to take steps to divest from companies enabling and profiting from Israel’s genocide, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. E-mail your councillors today to demand that the council ends its financial ties to companies complicit in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/divestmentduty

AMENDMENT FROM PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
PSC Lobby of Parliament will now take place on Tuesday 9th September 2025
The PSC lobby was originally scheduled for Wednesday 10 September, but has been moved a day earlier in solidarity with PCS workers taking industrial action in parliament. Please complete this action to register or re-register your participation for the new date.mIf you previously registered, but are not able to come to parliament on the 9th September, then please click here to notify us and your MP.
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LobbySept2025new

EVENTS
WANT TO NETWORK, LEARN AND SHOW SOLIDARITY?
THERE’S A LOT GOING ON AFTER THE SUMMER BREAK.
Find your way to express solidarity and to support justice for Palestinians from our up to date list of 34 curated events on our dedicated Events page (up to date as of 3 September)
https://ukpalmhn.com/events/

If you know of any future, relevant events that can be added to the page then please let us know at: ukpalmhn@gmail.com

FEATURED EVENTS
The Biosphere of Genocide (webinar) with Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah
Chair of Conflict Medicine at the Global Health Institute of the American University of Beirut
Source: Britain Palestine Project
Date: Monday 8 September at 3 pm UK time
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aD9Rg6XeTGmQiyTMXeLiEg#/registration

Reporting Gaza: A Public Talk with Wael Al-Dahdouh
Source: SOAS Department of Media Studies and Islaah SOAS
Date: Monday 8 September from 4pm – 5:30pm (UK time)
Location: SOAS Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Russell Square London WC1B 5DQ
Join us for a compelling and timely conversation with Wael Al-Dahdouh, the veteran, award-winning journalist and Gaza bureau chief for Al Jazeera. For months, his reporting has served as a critical window to the world, offering unflinching coverage from the heart of the conflict. He has not only reported on the devastation but has also endured immense personal loss, becoming a global symbol of journalistic resilience and the human cost of war.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reporting-gaza-a-public-talk-with-wael-al-dahdouh-tickets-1649697001139

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).”

Supermarket imports of Israeli food plunge amid Palestine activist pressure
Consumer boycotts of goods such as avocados, tomatoes and couscous affect UK retailers
[This Instagram post has a link to the source Daily Telegraph article which is partly visible behind a paywall]
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOAp5L1CqzF/?igsh=aWRxNW4zZDY5aHJ5

Co-op launches Palestinian beer amid Israel boycott
Taybeh Brewing Co, a Palestinian microbrewery, has secured a national listing with the Co-op for its new collaboration with Scottish B Corp Brewgooder. The move comes as the retailer ends trade with Israeli suppliers following a member-backed policy on ethical sourcing.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/08/co-op-launches-palestinian-beer-amid-israel-boycott/