Futuricide
The term seemed necessary to me to name something that the word genocide alone was insufficient to describe. It allows us to consider several forms of destruction together: the destruction of lives, of course, but also of infrastructure, culture, the environment, education, health, and the very conditions for a possible future. Destroying schools, universities, hospitals, farmland, or memorial sites strikes at a society’s capacity to plan for the future.
“Futuricide” also means the imposition of radical uncertainty and the occupation of the imagined future by external, Israeli-American plans that leave no room for Palestinian self-determination. It is therefore a multi-temporal violence: it targets the present, erases the past, and seeks to confiscate the future.
From Prison to Futuricide: Interview with Stephanie Latte Abdallah
Institute for Palestine Studies, 16 April 2026
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658922

“I refuse to tell the story of myself that I never was”
A child in Gaza, one of his limbs amputated, is asked what he wants to be. A doctor, he says, so that he can find a solution for his own amputated hand.
You can hear that sentence in two ways. A clinic trained in the dominant psychology might hear a symptom: denial, or the magical thinking of trauma, something to be assessed and managed.
The people who gathered on the thirtieth of April to speak about Gaza’s children heard something else. They heard an act of resistance, and the making of meaning.
The whole evening turned on the distance between those two hearings. By its end the dialogue had become the thing it set out to describe: an act of liberatory, anti-colonial psychology, performed rather than explained.
From a Palestine-Global Mental Health Network event
Chaired by Ms Fida Elian with Dr Rania Jawad, Dr Sama Dawani, and writer Bisan Nateel
Comments by Lama Khouri, Palestine-Global Mental Health Network
https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/i-refuse-to-tell-the-story-of-myself-that-never-was/ 

Genocide in Gaza: An ethical challenge for systemic therapists
Source: Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2
Authors: Gwyn Daniel, Chris Mannings, Joanne Early, Caroleen Bray, Amy Timms
Date: May 2026
The authors argue that the war on Gaza represents a profound ethical and professional rupture which requires systemic therapists to critically re-examine established concepts of neutrality, trauma and therapeutic practice. They explore how systemic approaches can both illuminate and obscure the political realities of genocide, oppression and collective suffering, while highlighting the limitations of conventional trauma frameworks in the context of ongoing violence. Drawing on the experiences and practices of Palestinian colleagues in Gaza, the paper advocates forms of witnessing, solidarity and liberation-focused therapeutic work grounded in justice, collective survival and resistance.
Abstract: 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-6427.70023

Notes of meeting with the PTC team in Gaza (May 2026)
Source: Palestine Trauma Centre (UK)
Date: Saturday 23 May (date of online meeting)PTC (Gaza) was set up in 2007 in Gaza City to help train therapists in mental health skills. It was also a referral centre for those with mental disorders and PTSD symptoms. The support group, PTC (UK) was set up in 2010. PTC (UK) provides support and training on the ground in Gaza both in-person and via technology, ensuring that help is never too far away.
These notes are from the most recent, public, online call with the team, providing an opportunity to hear directly from Gaza.
https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/notes-of-meeting-with-the-ptc-team-in-gaza-may-2026/

Hope against the odds
Source: Sea of Faith Network
Date: June 2026
Christine van Duuren is a member of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Steering Group. She volunteered at the Tent of Nations for the second time in January 2026.Her article reflects on volunteering at the Palestinian hilltop farm “Tent of Nations” near Bethlehem, describing the daily pressures placed on the Nassar family through settler expansion, legal obstruction, restrictions on infrastructure and ongoing psychological intimidation. It argues that the family’s commitment to non-violence, cultivation of the land and continued tree planting embody an active form of hope and resistance grounded in solidarity, dignity and the refusal to surrender to despair.
https://sofn.uk/library/hope-against-the-odds/ 

Survival outside Gaza was a lie
Source: Palestine Deep Dive
Date: 26 May
“A year since I left Gaza for survival and freedom, I am now, however, trying to survive a mental occupation and emotional death.”Abubaker Abed reflects that leaving Gaza brought physical safety but not psychological freedom, describing exile in Dublin as a state of alienation, numbness and “emotional death” in which his mind and soul remain bound to Gaza. The article powerfully frames survival as more than bodily escape, showing how trauma, separation from family, cultural dislocation and the burden of advocacy can create a continuing “mental occupation” outside the war zone.
https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/p/survival-outside-gaza-was-a-lie 

Israel, Russia among new additions on UN sexual violence “blacklist”
Source: Al Jazeera
Date: 29 May
A new UN report documents nearly 10,000 verified cases of conflict-related sexual violence worldwide in 2025 and adds both Israel and Russia to its blacklist of parties responsible for patterns of abuse. The report details allegations including rape, genital violence, torture and degrading treatment, while warning that the documented cases represent only a fraction of the true scale of violations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/29/israel-russia-un-conflict-related-sexual-violence-report 

A bomb fell closer to Bisan than ever before
Source: wizard_bisan1 on Instagram
Date: 26 May
Bisan Owda is an award-winning Palestinian citizen journalist and filmmaker reporting on everyday life in Gaza. She continues to file short videos from Gaza “even though” (her Instagram tagline) it is immensely dangerous. Her eye witness account in the aftermath of two bombings in a crowded,residential area is a direct challenge to the idea that there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY0AovXq1Cq/ 

“I saw even more closely the darkest, most violent things human beings can produce”
Source: Investig’Action
Date: 26 May
The interview is in French but most modern browsers should be able to provide an English translation.
Moroccan volunteer Yassine Benjelloun, who took part in the Sumud flotilla in September 2025 and May 2026, describes severe violence allegedly inflicted on flotilla participants after the May voyage was intercepted in international waters. His testimony includes accounts of beatings, electric shocks, rubber bullets, sexual assault, fear and humiliation, and reflects on the role of the flotilla in exposing forms of violence that Palestinians have experienced on a far greater scale for decades.
https://investigaction.net/yassine-benjelloun-jai-vu-dencore-plus-pres-ce-que-lhumain-peut-produire-de-plus-sombre-de-plus-violent/ 

FEATURED ACTION

Stop UK arms sales to Israel
Source: Oxfam
Date: June 2026
Oxfam is asking supporters to sign a petition demanding that the UK government end all arms sales and military support to Israel, arguing that continuing military cooperation makes the UK complicit in Israeli attacks in Palestine and Lebanon. The appeal highlights the displacement of civilians in Lebanon, including the testimony of Lina, who describes repeatedly losing homes to bombing and facing further uncertainty. Oxfam says the UK has stopped some arms sales since the petition began, but insists that pressure must continue until all arms sales and military support are ended.
https://view.news.oxfam.org.uk/?vawpToken=R63ZHCVWKQAUPF5X74AX52QCZ4.100218

Delete Genocide Tech – Public Meeting Tour
Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Dates:
15 June – Liverpool
16 June – Cardiff
17 June – LondonThis public meeting tour launches PSC’s new Delete Genocide Tech campaign, which seeks to challenge the role of technology companies whose products and services are used in Israeli systems of surveillance, targeting and control of Palestinians. The meetings will examine the links between major technology firms and Israeli military and security infrastructure, and invite participants to become involved in campaigns aimed at ending public-sector contracts with companies alleged to be complicit in apartheid and genocide.
https://palestinecampaign.org/events/delete-genocide-tech-public-meeting-tour/ 

FEATURED EVENTS
Death and Palestinian Prisoners
Source: Institute for Palestine Studies
Date: Thursday 4 June
Speakers: Smadar Ben-Natan, Muna Haddad, Suhad BisharaThis online webinar will examine Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners and the withholding of Palestinian bodies, alongside discussion of the March 2026 Knesset Death Penalty Law and its implications for Palestinians accused of terrorism. Drawing on legal scholarship and human rights advocacy, the speakers will address the use of imprisonment and death as mechanisms of control, the legal and political ramifications of the new law, and the broader context of settler-colonial violence and genocide in Gaza.
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659061

Who is Philemon? Who is Ka?
Source: Stand By The Mother lecture series
(conceived and produced by Palestinian Jungian Analyst Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi)
Date: Sunday 7 June at 5pm (UK time) (online)
Speaker: George Bright
This fundraising lecture in support of Palestinian mothers will feature analytical psychologist George Bright discussing Jung’s figures of Philemon and Ka, and their significance for understanding Jung’s psychology, world view and later thinking on synchronicity. There is no registration fee, but voluntary donations are encouraged for the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, supporting mental health interventions for women and children, emotional healing, community rebuilding, and people in temporary shelters and vulnerable environments.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyq49_svu4x2dDcnCdS5qzGoVc8sOWRwDmzo9OxHhmydlPjA/viewform

Dardāsheh with Lara Sheehi
Source: International Palestine Mental Health Networks
Date: Monday 8 June at 6pm (UK time)
Shatāt-USA Palestine Mental Health Network, whose name comes from shatāt, the Palestinian diaspora, has been founded by Palestinians living in diaspora and mental health practitioners committed to Palestinian liberation, and is launching this event as the newest affiliate of the International Collective of the Palestine Mental Health Networks. Dardāsheh, Arabic for “chitchat”, will be a series of gatherings for mental health workers and organisers to build critical connections, exchange knowledge and build community, beginning with a discussion with Lara Sheehi about her new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures.
https://www.pmhn-international.org/calendar/dardsheh-with-lara-sheehi
A recording of the event will be made available on the Shallāl Substack account:
https://pmhnintl.substack.com/

Working with families and wider systems in contexts of continuous and complex trauma: The case of Gaza
Source: Association for Family Therapy (AFT)
Date: Monday 13 July
Speakers: Gwyn Daniel, Hind Khalifeh and Danny McGowan
This online workshop will explore collaboration with Palestinian mental health workers in Gaza and describe evolving practices to support colleagues who are themselves living through the same traumas as those they are helping. The presenters will discuss support for children and families, training initiatives, “ethical loneliness”, and systemic questions concerning power, racism and colonialism in contexts of continuous war and occupation.
https://www.aft.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?group=&id=2028611 

UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Mental Health Study TourMonday 26 October to Wednesday 4 November
This autumn we are offering a 10-day study tour for practitioners from the fields of mental health and social work who are keen to explore the complex interface between politics and psychological well-being in the particular circumstances of Palestine/Israel. The tour provides excellent access to clinicians, academics, community groups and political analysts with 25 encounters, plus additional cultural opportunities. It will be facilitated by a small UK company established in 1999 that has provided alternative tours to the area. Hotels will be in Bethlehem and Nazareth with additional visits to Jerusalem, Hebron, Ramallah and Jaffa/Tel Aviv […]
Full details here:https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/autumn-tour-2026/
For an application form please write including your name, address, contact information, and professional qualifications to:ukpalmhn@gmail.com 

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).”

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has intervened to stop a £50 million Met Police contract with Palantir
Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign on X (referencing a Guardian article)
Date: 21 May
https://x.com/PSCupdates/status/2057430738207711240?s=20

Tell Keir Starmer: Cancel All Contracts with Palantir
Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Date: June 2026
The British government is awarding lucrative contracts to Palantir, which provides AI and surveillance technology used as an essential part of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and wider regime of military occupation and apartheid. The government is pushing ahead with the rollout of the NHS Federated Data Platform, which is being developed and maintained by Palantir. This is despite major objections on both data privacy and human rights grounds raised by health workers, patients and civil society organisations. In addition, last December, the Ministry of Defence awarded Palantir a £240 million contract without a tender process, its largest ever contract awarded by the department.
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalantircontracts