National March for Palestine – Tell the new PM – End the genocide
Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Date: 18 July at 12 noon
Location: Central London (exact location to be confirmed)
Keir Starmer has finally been forced to resign – brought down in no small part by his shameful support for Israel’s crimes. Whoever comes next must break with this moral bankruptcy, or they will face a similar fate. Join our march to send a powerful message to the next Prime Minister to stand up for Palestine and take all possible action, including sanctions, to end Israel’s genocide.
https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-tell-the-new-pm-end-the-genocide/

Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children
Source: The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
Date: 23 June
Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, and war crimes in the West Bank, the UN Independent International Commission said in a new report. The Commission concluded last year that Israel had committed genocide against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip. It has now found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued – resulting in unprecedented death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children. The Commission reiterates that the deliberate targeting of children is one of the key elements establishing genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/06/israel-continues-commit-genocide-and-other-atrocity-crimes-deliberately

“The child whose death struck me most in the West Bank was in a different situation. He was in Al-Far’a refugee camp, in the town of Tubas. He was a 14-year-old boy.
He was shot by an Israeli military patrol as he was leaving his house. The patrol had been in the area, but at the time there had been no fighting taking place.
He was shot, badly injured, and left lying on the ground. He was surrounded by a company of Israeli soldiers for 45 minutes while this 14-year-old boy bled to death.
Early on, he was still able to move a little. He pushed his cap out to indicate that he was still alive and needed attention. A soldier kicked the cap back at him. On another occasion, he was crying out, and again the response was to kick towards him.
Later, a soldier came up and dropped a stone next to him, trying to frame this innocent child as a stone-thrower, when there is no evidence whatsoever that he was doing anything more than going out to play.
As the mother tried to leave the house to reach the child, to rescue him or attend to him, she was shot at by the Israeli military patrol.
There was a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance nearby, and whenever the ambulance tried to approach the scene, a laser-targeted weapon was aimed at the driver. The laser was hitting the driver in the middle of the head, and the driver of course withdrew in fear of being shot.
For 45 minutes, this child bled to death while surrounded by Israeli soldiers who not only showed no concern for him, and not only did nothing themselves to assist him, but actively prevented the child’s mother from reaching him and the ambulance from assisting him.”
Commission member Chris Sidoti, at the press conference to launch the report
Source: Defence for Children International
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_xLsK5ZpUc8

Ms Rachel, the popular children’s educator and YouTube creator, also hosted an online discussion following the release of the report. She spoke with Commission member Chris Sidoti, emergency physician Dr Mimi Syed and others about the UN Commission’s findings on the targeting of Palestinian children and the responsibilities of states to act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoq-PtfJKHg

There are tens of thousands of Hind Rajabs
Source: Lama Khouri on Substack
Date: 26 June
Lama Khouri responds to the UN Commission’s report on crimes against Palestinian children by asking readers to see Hind Rajab’s case as one visible instance of a much wider reality, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian children have been killed, wounded or traumatised without comparable public recognition. Writing as a Palestinian mother and psychoanalyst, she links the deliberate targeting of children to the destruction of childhood itself: the loss of play, safety, imagination and hope under conditions of genocide, occupation and continuing military violence.
https://lamakhouri1.substack.com/p/tens-of-thousands-of-hind-rajabs

Link to the If This Were Your Child campaign:
https://www.instagram.com/if_this_were_your_child/

UN inquiry: Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children as part of genocide
Source: Middle East Eye
Date: 23 June
Middle East Eye provides an overview of the UN Commission’s report, focusing on how the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children is linked to the Commission’s finding of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The article highlights evidence cited in the report, including direct killings and injuries, attacks on healthcare and neonatal care, denial of education, detention abuse, severe psychological trauma, and the wider destruction of the conditions necessary for Palestinian children’s survival and development.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-deliberately-targeted-palestinian-children-part-genocide-un-inquiry-finds

Palestinian prisoners’ institutions issue urgent appeal to World Health Organization to intervene to stop spread of scabies among Palestinian political prisoners in occupation’s prisons
Source: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Date: 17 June
Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs have sent an urgent appeal to the director-general of the World Health Organisation, calling for immediate intervention over deteriorating health conditions among Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons. The appeal focuses on the spread of scabies, including among child prisoners, and links the crisis to prison policies and conditions that the organisations say have turned a treatable disease into a serious health threat affecting thousands of detainees.
https://addameer.ps/news/5688

Israel bombs Palestinians in beach tents in Gaza
Source: Drop Site News
Date: 25 June
Mohamed Ahmed and Abdel Qader Sabbah report on Israeli attacks on displaced Palestinians sheltering in tents along Gaza’s coastline, including a strike in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, that killed 11-year-old Ahmed al-Raqab and severely wounded other children. The article links these attacks to the UN Commission’s finding that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted, while also documenting the continuing realities of displacement, destroyed shelters, heat, water scarcity, insects, rodents and the absence of any meaningful ceasefire for families living on the beach.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bombs-gaza-coastline-tents-beach-displaced-palestinians

UK doctors reject IHRA definition and back protections for staff speaking on Palestine
Source: Middle East Eye
Date: 25 June
Middle East Eye reports that doctors at the British Medical Association’s annual conference voted to drop the IHRA definition of antisemitism, citing concerns that it has had a chilling effect on legitimate political speech and professional expression about Palestine/Israel. The article links the vote to wider concern over the Lord Mann review, NHS England’s adoption of the definition, and cases in which healthcare workers have faced reprimand or professional detriment for showing support for Palestine.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-doctors-reject-ihra-definition-and-back-protections-staff-speaking-palestine
BMJ article (partly behind a paywall):
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026-100085
The full text of motions 55 (IHRA definition) and 1002 (Mann review) are on this page:
https://bma-dag.org/

The Archbishop of Canterbury calls for a just peace while visiting Tent of Nations
Source: ICAHD
Date: 25 June
Archbishop Sarah Mullally visited the Tent of Nations farm south of Bethlehem, where she met and prayed with the Nasser family and planted an olive tree as a sign of hope for justice and peace. The visit highlighted the family’s long struggle to protect land held for more than 100 years, their commitment to non-violent resistance under the motto “We refuse to be enemies”, and the wider pressures facing Palestinian Christians in the occupied West Bank.
https://icahd.org/2026/06/25/she-gets-it-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-calls-for-a-just-peace-while-visiting-tent-of-nations/

FEATURED ACTIONS

Tent of Nations – Early Day Motion 502
Source: Friends of Tent of Nations UK
Date: 2 July
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent visit has brought renewed attention to the Tent of Nations, the Nassar family’s educational and ecological farm south-west of Bethlehem, known for its Christian-rooted commitment to non-violence and its message: “We refuse to be enemies.” The family have spent 35 years trying to protect and re-register their land through legal means, while facing restrictions on access, road construction through the farm, development of a nearby outpost, surveillance and harassment. Please write to your MP and ask them to sign Early Day Motion 502, which calls on the UK government to raise the Nassar family’s case with the Israeli authorities.
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/66221
An action pack, including a template letter, a briefing for MPs, an updated legal briefing and a booklet about the farm, is available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gw3sOr251O1G24D3WA_H0GAcpMURUnQc?usp=sharing

Write to your MP: debate to ban trade with illegal settlements
Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Date: Thursday 9 July
Abtisam Mohamed MP will sponsor a backbench debate in the House of Commons on Thursday 9 July, calling for a ban on British trade with illegal Israeli settlements. This is an opportunity to push MPs, including the incoming Prime Minister, to take a meaningful step against Israel’s criminal actions. Please take two minutes to email your MP demanding action for comprehensive sanctions against Israel, including a complete ban on all trade with illegal settlements.
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/MPdebatesettlements

FEATURED EVENTS

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

Decolonial Mental Health Practice Part 2: Clinical and ethical insights from Palestine
Source: Science and Nonduality
Date: Sundays 5, 12, 19 and 26 July at 5-7pm (UK time)
This four-part online course with Dr Samah Jabr explores decolonial mental health practice through clinical, ethical and political insights drawn from her psychiatric work in Palestine. The course examines trauma caused by humiliation and degradation, clinical approaches to torture and its aftermath, gendered experiences of political violence, and the mental health of children and adolescents living under chronic instability. It is intended for mental health professionals, clinicians in training, social workers, humanitarian practitioners, academics and human rights advocates, and includes clinical vignettes, video excerpts, plenary discussion, small-group analytical work and facilitated dialogue.
https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/decolonial-mental-health-practice-part-2/
If you missed Part 1 with Dr Samah, you can access the recording here:
https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/decolonial-mental-health-practice/

UK-Palestine Mental Health Network mental health study tour
Monday 26 October to Wednesday 4 November
Applications are open for UKPALMHN’s 10-day study tour for mental health and social work practitioners interested in the relationship between political realities and psychological wellbeing in Palestine/Israel. The tour includes meetings with clinicians, academics, community groups and political analysts, with visits planned to Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Hebron, Ramallah and Jaffa/Tel Aviv.
Full details:
https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/autumn-tour-2026/
For an application form, please email ukpalmhn@gmail.com, including your name, address, contact details and professional qualifications.

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, divestment and sanctions (BDS).”

End UK complicity in genocide: sanction Israel
Source: Labour & Palestine
Date: Tuesday 7 July
Labour & Palestine is hosting an online discussion with Richard Burgon MP and live links from Palestine and South Africa on next steps in campaigning for justice for Palestinians and meaningful sanctions against Israel in line with international law. Listed speakers include Giorgia Gusciglio, Ryvka Barnard, Hugh Lanning and Rachel Garnham, with further guests from Palestine and South Africa to be announced.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/end-uk-complicity-in-genocide-sanction-israel-tickets-1990974363918

Email your MP: demand the UK bans trade with settlements
Source: Medical Aid for Palestinians
Date: June 2026
Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank are forcing Palestinians off their land and worsening an existing healthcare crisis. The Foreign Secretary advised British businesses not to trade with illegal settlements. However, MAP calls for the UK to introduce an outright ban. MAP says supporters should send a clear message: this is not enough. MAP asks supporters to email their MPs to demand the UK ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements. 
https://mailchi.mp/map.org.uk/urgent-demand-the-uk-ban-settlement-trade