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| National Demonstration at the Labour Party Conference Saturday 27 September – assemble 12 noon at St George’s Plateau, Liverpool, L1 1LQ Join the national demonstration for Palestine in Liverpool to bring the message directly to the Labour Party’s Conference: End Israel’s genocide, stop starving Gaza, stop arming Israel! https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-demonstration-at-the-labour-party-conference/ UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Monday 29 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 write to ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like to attend this meeting.  National March for Palestine Saturday 11 October – assemble at 12 noon in Central London Location to be confirmed End the Genocide – End Starvation – Stop Arming Israel https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-demonstration-for-palestine-11-october/ #Press_Statement- Gaza- 22-9-2025 The Israeli Occupation Forces have just bombed Al-Shawa Building which houses GCMHP’s Gaza Community and Training centre. Gaza Community Mental Health Programme condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli act of destroying Al-Shawa Building, in Gaza City. The building was housing GCMHP’s main offices. GCMHP has been using its 7 rented offices in the targeted building to provide mental health and psychosocial services for war victims and affected people. The building was a pivotal point supporting thousands of beneficiaries who are categorised among the most fragile groups in the community, including children, women and people with disabilities. This targeting does not only represent a flagrant violation of the international law, but also aims at undermining the humanitarian efforts to support the civilians who live harsh conditions under the continuing aggression and siege. Despite the big losses and the increasing challenges, GCMHP emphasises that it will continue to commit to its humanitarian mission of providing psychosocial support for the affected. It also calls upon the international community and human rights organisations to promptly intervene to stop the recurring violations against the civilians and their infrastructure. Gaza Community Mental Health Programme There is currently no web link for GCMHP because the website is being restored following a recent cyber-attack. However, the Gaza Mental Health Foundation in the U.S.A is a partner of GCMHP and has a donations page: https://www.gazamentalhealth.org/support/ Palestine – Global Mental Health Network and its International Counterparts Joint Statement Words mean nothing in the face of ongoing atrocity, yet silence is also complicity. We find ourselves with no choice but to use our words to express our outrage. The Palestine–Global Mental Health Network and its international counterpart, the Palestine Mental Health Networks (which includes the UK Network), condemn in the strongest terms the Zionist entity’s bombing of the Al-Shawa Building in Gaza City, which housed the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme’s Gaza Community Center and Training Department. As networks of clinicians, scholars, and mental-health professionals, we cannot provide services on the ground in Gaza. But we can and must raise our voices to denounce the continuous atrocities the people of Gaza, and the Palestinian people at large, continue to face. The destruction of GCMHP’s center is not an isolated incident: it is part of a decades-long pattern of systemic targeting, dispossession, and assault carried out with utter disregard for international law and without any meaningful accountability. We call on all our colleagues in the medical and mental-health professions worldwide to join us in condemning such attacks, and to use their voices and institutions to demand that their governments: – Hold the Zionist entity accountable for repeated war crimes and crimes against humanity. – Enforce an immediate ceasefire. – Allow unrestricted and unconditional humanitarian aid into Gaza. – End the ongoing genocide. For two years, the world has witnessed endless atrocities live-streamed in real time, and yet no effective action has been taken. There is no other way forward: silence and delay enable genocide. The time for words without consequences has long passed. What is needed now is accountability, justice, and an end to impunity. Palestine–Global Mental Health Network The International Palestine Mental Health Networks https://www.pmhn-international.org/attack-on-the-gaza-community-mental-health-programme Gwyn Daniel interview with Al-Jazeera Source: Al-Jazeera Media Vie Date: 19 September Gwyn Daniel is a member of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Steering Group and a Patron of the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) Gwyn discusses how Israel’s campaign functions as psychological warfare, combining physical destruction with sustained dehumanisation. She argues that repeated forced displacement, overcrowding, and the absence of safety strip people of agency and exhaust communities. Day-to-day survival tasks dominate life, while trauma and malnutrition inflict long-term cognitive and emotional harm on children. Despite moments of resilience, she describes a population pushed to endure the unendurable. Concise Q&A outline Interviewer: Is the current strategy in Gaza a form of psychological warfare? Gwyn: Yes—its purpose is to debilitate and control, pairing material devastation with a message that Palestinians cannot exist or cannot exist there. Interviewer: What are the key tools or elements of this tactic? Gwyn: Systematic destruction, forced relocations into ever smaller areas, and constant dehumanisation that removes agency and narrows every “choice” to harm. Interviewer: What role does constant displacement play? Gwyn: Serial uprooting over years, fear of never returning, loss of family and livelihoods, and lack of transport compound exhaustion and despair. Interviewer: How does this exhaust and humiliate people on the ground? Gwyn: Overcrowding, scarcity, and the grind of meeting basic needs make survival itself exhausting and erode dignity. Interviewer: How can people carry on, and what about children? Gwyn: People continue because they must, relying on community, but children face acute trauma and malnutrition with lifelong effects, including hyper-vigilance and expressions of hopelessness. Full interview (7 minutes): https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/XXPOGoMT1I FEATURED ACTIONS You can see a list of all current actions on this page: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ Red Line for Gaza silent vigils The Red Line for Gaza coalition are asking supporters to join the interfaith Red Line action that will be taking place on Thursday 25 September at 11am outside the UK Parliament in London (King George V statute opposite Old Palace Yard) You are welcome to wear red and bring banners relating to the Red Line for Gaza which this week will be focusing on the theme of forced displacement. Details from the Jewish Network for Palestine: https://www.facebook.com/JewishNetworkforPalestine/posts/the-red-line-for-gaza-coalition-are-asking-supporters-to-join-the-interfaith-red/1222650353236192/ Make your own red line The coalition is keen for actions to also take place up and down the country. Christian Aid has shared ways that you can set up your own, simple Red Line actions in your home towns, at your local church, or similar. This can either fit in with the national actions or be at some other time. “There’s no ‘set way’ of doing this, do whatever works for you or your church.” https://www.christianaid.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns/red-line-gaza-church-action UK Jewish Fast For Gaza on Yom Kippur Source: Jewish Peaceniks UK Date: Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 October Location: Westminster. The exact location to be disclosed nearer the date. An important initiative from our Jewish colleagues many of whom participated in the UKPMHN Fast for Gaza in July. To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Gaza genocide, Jewish Peaceniks UK are inviting a hundred Jews to join in a public fast on Yom Kippur to express our horror and outrage at the starvation of the Gazan population. The public fast will begin at sunset at 6.24 pm on Wednesday October 1st and end at 7.25pm on October 2nd. – Oct 1st: Kol Nidre. All participants will attend until 8.30 pm – Oct 2nd:Yom Kippur Participants can choose to attend for different periods of the day (See Registration Form) To attend the Yom Kippur Fast for Gaza, please complete the registration form: https://forms.gle/iqBXFrJPxYUByV45A FEATURED EVENT You can see our full list of events on this page: https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ Authors Read for Gaza Source: Pages for Hackney Date: Thursday 25 September at 7pm Location: The Old School Rooms, London E5 A rolling evening of author readings to raise funds for two essential organisations operating in Gaza. https://www.instagram.com/p/DNpyEbtoyZ8/ 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).” Monmouthshire and Southwark divestment from companies complicit in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign Date: 19 September 20 local councils in England & Wales have supported divestment from companies enabling Israel’s atrocities. https://www.instagram.com/p/DOyHVE-CLL1/?img_index=1 PSC letter writing campaign: https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/divestmentduty Joining and shopping with the Co-op In May 2025, Co-op members voted for a boycott of Israeli products. In June 2025, the Co-op Board implemented a new sourcing policy confirming that Israeli goods would be removed from shelves. In September the Co-op started selling a Palestinian beer called Sun and Stone. As a result, the editor decided to join the Co-op which was very straight forward online and costs £1. https://www.coop.co.uk/membership We have now completed our first online shop You do not need to be a member to order on line you can also proceed as a guest. Hourly delivery slots are available up to 5 days in advance and we ordered for the next day. In our area, deliveries cost between £1.50 – £2.50 and are delivered in sturdy paper bags. It is also possible to order food for collection in store. The next step is to try the Palestinian beer. https://shop.coop.co.uk/ Workers stage massive strike across Italy in support of Gaza Source: Politico Date: 22 September Protests took place in 81 Italian towns and cities under the slogan “Let’s Block Everything.” The strike was organised after dockworkers in Genoa vowed to support the Global Sumud Flotilla, which includes prominent activist Greta Thunberg, by threatening to prevent the exit of container ships carrying goods to Israel. Last week, stevedores in the city of Ravenna refused entry to trucks said to be carrying arms destined for Israel. https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-workers-strike-support-gaza-palestine-state/ |
الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصحة النفسية 