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/

https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-stop-starving-gaza-6-sept/ Support for Chilean Network protesting and event in Santiago Source: Palestine-Global Mental Health Network Date: August 2025 The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network has coordinated a letter in support of the Chilean network, protesting against an invitation to the US/Israeli academic Tal Ben-Shahar to an event in Santiago. The UK Network has signed this letter of support. The full text of the letter is available here:  https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/letter-to-the-organizers-of-the-san-carlos-de-apoquindo-event-centre/ The International Community Must Act Now in Gaza and the West Bank Source: PsychoActive (statement) Date: August 2025 PsychoActive is “a group of practicing and academic mental health professionals who have set themselves the goal of being active in areas of social-political concern, especially the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The group developed out of the members’ need to expand therapeutic discourse and practice to include the social and political contexts.” https://psychoactive.wixsite.com/website PsychoActive has recently issued a statement “The International Community Must Act Now in Gaza and the West Bank“ that is signed by 31 mental health professionals and which concludes: “[…] As witnesses to these ongoing atrocities, the international community bears responsibility not just to observe but to act. History will judge not only those who committed these acts but also those who had the power to stop them and chose silence. We have seen how governmental mechanisms of dehumanisation make ordinary citizens complicit in extraordinary crimes. The international community has tools to break this cycle – economic leverage, legal mechanisms, and diplomatic pressure that can create accountability where domestic systems have failed. This is not a time for symbolic gestures or cautious diplomacy. It is a time for the moral clarity and courageous action that protecting human life demands. The question is not whether the international community can act, but whether it will choose to do so before it is too late. The children of Israel, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank – Palestinian and Israeli alike – deserve a future free from trauma and violence. That future requires international intervention today.” https://psychoactive.wixsite.com/website/the-international-community-must-act-now We Are Still Here: An anthology of resilience, grief, and unshattered hope from Gaza’s university students (a new book) Source: Dajarapress Date: August 2025 (publication date) We Are Still Here is an anthology of the voices of students from Gaza – raw, unfiltered, and courageous. It features short and long stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gaza’s universities. These are not retrospective reflections or distant analyses; they are real-time words, emerging from the depths of genocide, displacement, and grief. These writings may be their last hopes to reach the world, a final act of resistance through expression. https://darajapress.com/publication/we-are-still-here/ Please note the deadline of Friday 29 August ACTIONS WANT TO TAKE ACTION? So far in August, we have posted 14 actions on our dedicated Actions Page: 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 ACTION Stop arming Israel (crowd sourcing appeal) Source: Global Legal Action Network Date: August 2025 GLAN and Palestinian human rights organisation, Al-Haq, are challenging the export of weapons to Israel for use in Gaza. […] We urgently need to build a groundswell of support to get this case over the line in this final push. We must send a clear message to government: complicity in war crimes and other atrocity crimes including genocide, is unlawful. […] This case is about ensuring that Britain complies with its own policies on the export of weapons and does not contribute to war crimes or breaches of International Humanitarian Law. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-arming-israel EVENTS WANT TO NETWORK, LEARN AND SHOW SOLIDARITY? As of 27 August there are 21 upcoming, curated events listed on our dedicated events page: 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 EVENT 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: British Palestine Program Date: Monday 8 September at 3 pm UK time https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aD9Rg6XeTGmQiyTMXeLiEg#/registration 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).” United Methodist Church divests from Israel bonds Source: Mondoweiss Date: 18 August The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge. [Wikipedia describes The United Methodist Church (UMC) as a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.] https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/united-methodist-church-divests-from-israel-bonds/

Al-Haq registry of Israeli genocidal statements Source: Al-Haq Date: August 2025 Al-Haq is a respected, independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank. It has launched a public database of Israeli genocidal statements providing important evidence of intent. https://intent.alhaq.org/ More information about the extensive legal actions undertaken or supported by Al-Haq are available here: https://mailchi.mp/alhaq.org/al-haq-midyear-newsletter-when-the-international-community-fails-to-act-we-must-hold-them-accountable-9488095 Petition for the End of the Genocide in Gaza! In Defense of a Free Palestine! Manifesto of the Brazilian Jungian Community for the End of the Genocide in Gaza We, the undersigned, professionals of the Brazilian Jungian community, hereby demand the immediate end of the genocide of the Palestinian people, carried out by the far-right government of Israel with the support of the United States and European powers. […] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONcdgtKM_3b-lGScx8BFESuft4ySN5RHD0CJxpVfRrs/edit ACTIONS WANT TO TAKE ACTION? As of 20 August, we have 15 actions posted in July and August on our dedicated Actions Page: 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 EVENTS WANT TO NETWORK, LEARN AND SHOW SOLIDARITY? As of 20 August there are 20 upcoming, curated events listed on our dedicated events page: 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 Welcome to Gaza Friday 22 and Saturday 23 August Palestine House, London WC1V 6JJ Source: Hands Up ProjectWe’re thrilled to invite you to witness Welcome to Gaza- a powerful, moving theatrical performance created by young Palestinian voices. After heartfelt showings at the Totnes Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Welcome to Gaza is heading to London Palestine House. These aren’t just plays. They’re a raw and brave expression of life under siege, told by the children who live it. Featuring a unique blend of drama, and real-time verbatim messages from Gaza (before and after October 7, 2023), this performance gives space to voices too often unheard. Directed by Peter Oswald and performed by a group of incredible Palestinian talents, Welcome to Gaza is a rare chance to connect with the resilience and creativity of Palestinians. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/palestinehouse/1794023 Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk (film) Wednesday 20 August – UK Premiere Edinburgh Film Festival From Friday 22 August – in cinemas For a year, filmmaker Sepideh Farsi recorded her video calls with photojournalist Fatma Hassona, creating a vivid and haunting video testimony of her daily life in Gaza. Through the faltering intimacy of the phone screen, a strong bond develops between the two women, and Fatma’s unfailing resilience creates a powerful contrast to the ongoing devastation and destruction around her. Combining their video calls with Fatma’s arresting images of Gaza, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a testament to this talented photographer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after the film’s completion. https://releasing.dogwoof.com/put-your-soul-on-your-hand-and-walk Official trailer:  https://youtu.be/9yaSKI1wc-M Detained, Tortured, Disappeared: The Israeli military’s targeting of Palestinian children Source: Defense for Children International – Palestine Date: Tuesday 26 August at 5pm (UK time) Israel is the only country in the world that systematically detains, tortures, prosecutes, and imprisons children in a military detention system. Around 500 to 700 Palestinian children are targeted by this system each year, and the brutal abuse they face by Israeli forces has severely intensified since October 7, 2023. Now, Israeli forces are detaining, torturing, and disappearing Palestinian children from Gaza, with no accountability. This webinar will train attendees on the basics of Israel’s military detention system and how it targets Palestinian children to exert control over the Palestinian people. Attendees will hear directly from Defense for Children International – Palestine about the hurdles faced by lawyers trying to provide legal aid for child detainees. This training will also include actions to take in support of Palestinian child detainees from the United States, United Kingdom, and other places around the world. https://www.dci-palestine.org/detained_tortured_disappeared_20250826 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).” Cumberland Council commits to divest from companies enabling Israel’s crimes Cumberland Council has declared that it will end financial ties with companies supplying weapons to Israel, and those active in Israel’s illegal settlements. The council will also call on Cumbria Pension Fund to similarly divest. Cumbria Pension Fund must immediately heed this call, and commit to begin to divest the £74million+ it has invested in companies facilitating Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians. This win is testament to the tireless campaigning of Carlisle & District PSC. Cumberland Council is the 17th council in Britain to support divestment from companies enabling Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. This link provides material for further action: https://palestinecampaign.eaction.online/councillorsaction

UKPALMHN Solidarity Space The next Solidarity Space meeting will be on Monday 1 September 2025. Regrettably, this means that there will not be Solidarity Space meetings on: Monday 25 August – no meeting Ahed Tamimi – National Symbol of Resistance on Liberation, Law & Living Under Occupation (rare 50-minute interview) Source: The Enlightenment Podcast Date: 9 August [Many of you will remember our UKPMHN conference on Palestinian Children in March 2019. We wanted to hear directly from Palestinian children and Mohammed Mukhaimer, one of our Steering Group, interviewed Ahed on zoom.. We are pleased to circulate this recent interview with her especially as violent settler attacks on her village, Nebi Sala  and all over the West Bank are escalating.] From Hanan Kattan in the Enlightenment Podcast: “A young Palestinian girl raises her hand and slaps an IDF soldier.  It was an iconic moment that put Ahed Tamimi, her defiant face and blonde curls, on front pages all over the world. Ahed resisted, she wrote a book ‘They Called Me Lioness’, she refused to submit. She was jailed, then put under house arrest by the IDF. She rarely gives interviews, but we’re honoured that Ahed is our guest. Risking yet more time in Israeli prisons, Ahed speaks openly, with raw honesty, about her experiences, her frustration and her vision of the future. We believe that at this crucial moment for Palestine, Ahed’s message needs to be amplified, and we’re asking if you will take the time to post a link to the full episode for your followers and community today.Thank you in advance for considering helping get Ahed’s words to a world that needs to hear them.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BanFKA9Vep4 (50 minute episode. The interview with Ahed starts at 2:00) Strong responses to an inadequate statement by the International Federation of Social Workers. On 19 July, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), which has hitherto been silent on the genocide in Gaza, published a “Public statement of solidarity with Palestinian social workers and the people of Gaza” –  https://www.ifsw.org/public-statement-of-solidarity-with-palestinian-social-workers-and-the-people-of-gaza/ The IFSW is STILL silent on the genocide in Gaza, as this weak and inadequate statement makes no mention of it, nor of apartheid, occupation, settler colonialism, or ethnic cleansing. It refers to Palestinian suffering, but makes no mention of who is causing this suffering. On 29 July, the Irish Association of Social Workers issued a groundbreaking response: “The omission of terms like ‘genocide’, ‘ethnic cleansing’, ‘starvation’ and ‘war crimes’ significantly weakens the moral and legal clarity needed to address the ongoing crisis. […] The passive language used, phrases like ‘end the violence’ and ‘protect the lives of civilians’, masks the agency of the perpetrators. These vague statements obscure the direct actions of the Israeli state and the Israel Defence Forces, which are causing the suffering and deaths of countless innocent civilians. Without explicitly naming the aggressors, the call for peace risks becoming a neutral stance in the face of oppression, erasing accountability and downplaying the urgency of confronting the reality of state-sponsored violence.” Their full response:  https://iasw.ie/Response_to_IFSW_Statement_on_Palestine On 2 August, the Palestinian Union of Social Workers and Psychologists lambasted the IFSW statement: “While framed as ‘solidarity’, the statement is little more than a carefully worded exercise in neutrality. It fails to name the aggressor, omits the term genocide, and avoids addressing the occupation, settler-colonialism, and apartheid that underpin the Palestinian tragedy. This is not solidarity. This is complicity masked as diplomacy.” https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/puswp-response-to-ifsw-statement-july-2025/ The UK group, Social Workers for a Free Palestine, have contacted BASW and called on them to also speak out against the IFSW statement. The group is working on its own response. To find out more about Social Workers for a Free Palestine: email: sw4palestineuk@gmail.com X: @SW4PalestineUK Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialworkersforafreepalestine/ ACTIONSWANT TO TAKE ACTION? As of 13 August, we have 14 actions posted in July and August on our dedicated Actions Page: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/  We have a record number of recent actions listed on our web page this week so a big shout out to the volunteers who are helping to scan the web for relevant material. You know who you are! 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 Write to your MP: Recall Parliament for Gaza Israel is escalating its abhorrent attacks against the Gaza Strip, including by announcing plans to “take control of all Gaza”. Palestinians cannot wait for parliamentarians to return from their summer break to respond to the ongoing genocide they face. Please write to your MP to demand the government recalls Parliament from its summer recess in order to impose immediate sanctions against Israel, including ending all arms trade and military cooperation. https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/recallparliament Think these are unrealistic demands? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/1/slovenia-becomes-first-eu-country-to-impose-arms-embargo-on-israel From Palestine House, 113 High Holborn, London WC1V 6JQ: Good morning. The British Palestinian community will be holding:a 3 day vigil outside Palestine House starting from Tuesday 12 August between 7pm-10pm to commemorate Anas and all the journalists in Palestine. They ask all groups to get involved. EVENTS WANT TO NETWORK, LEARN AND SHOW SOLIDARITY? As of 13 August there are 25 upcoming, curated events listed on our dedicated events page: https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ This week we have a record number of events listed on our web page so it is time to say a big thank you to the volunteers who are helping to scan the web for relevant material. You know who you are! 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 Welcome to Gaza Friday 22 and Saturday 23 August Palestine House, London WC1V 6JJ Source: Hands Up ProjectWe’re thrilled to invite you to witness Welcome to Gaza- a powerful, moving theatrical performance created by young Palestinian voices. After heartfelt showings at the Totnes Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Welcome to Gaza is heading to London Palestine House. These aren’t just plays. They’re a raw and brave expression of life under siege, told by the children who live it. Featuring a unique blend of drama, and real-time verbatim messages from Gaza (before and after October 7, 2023), this performance gives space to voices too often unheard. Directed by Peter Oswald and performed by a group of incredible Palestinian talents, Welcome to Gaza is a rare chance to connect with the resilience and creativity of Palestinians. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/palestinehouse/1794023 Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk (film) Wednesday 20 August – UK Premiere Edinburgh Film Festival From Friday 22 August – in cinemas For a year, filmmaker Sepideh Farsi recorded her video calls with photojournalist Fatma Hassona, creating a vivid and haunting video testimony of her daily life in Gaza. Through the faltering intimacy of the phone screen, a strong bond develops between the two women, and Fatma’s unfailing resilience creates a powerful contrast to the ongoing devastation and destruction around her. Combining their video calls with Fatma’s arresting images of Gaza, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a testament to this talented photographer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after the film’s completion. https://releasing.dogwoof.com/put-your-soul-on-your-hand-and-walk Official trailer: https://youtu.be/9yaSKI1wc-M 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).” Cumberland Council commits to divest from companies enabling Israel’s crimes Cumberland Council has declared that it will end financial ties with companies supplying weapons to Israel, and those active in Israel’s illegal settlements. The council will also call on Cumbria Pension Fund to similarly divest. Cumbria Pension Fund must immediately heed this call, and commit to begin to divest the £74million+ it has invested in companies facilitating Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians. This win is testament to the tireless campaigning of Carlisle & District PSC. Cumberland Council is the 17th council in Britain to support divestment from companies enabling Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. This link provides material for further action: https://palestinecampaign.eaction.online/councillorsaction

UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Monday 4 August 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. National March for Palestine – Stop Starving Gaza – Stop Arming Israel Saturday 9 August from 12 noon – 4pm Central London Further details to follow https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-stop-starving-gaza-stop-arming-israel/ PSC Statement on Starmer’s announcement on Palestinian statehood Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign Date: 30 July PSC condemns Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statement on Tuesday which fails to address the urgent pressure needed for Israel to end its genocide in Gaza. It shamefully frames the Palestinian right to self-determination within the context of Israel’s actions, rather than as an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Tuesday’s announcement came in part because of intense pressure from the British public, expressed in the huge protest movement that has persevered over many months. […] We call upon people to join the protests we have called over the summer, including the next national march on Saturday 9 August. We must sustain pressure on the government to take the action required, as outlined above, to bring an end to the genocide and a dismantling of the structures of oppression Israel has employed for decades to deny the Palestinian people their inalienable rights. https://palestinecampaign.org/psc-statement-on-starmers-announcement-on-palestinian-statehood/ What if they were ours? Aneeza Pervez on moral failure and the lives of Palestinian children. Source: The British Psychological Society website Date: 25 July 2025 “Psychology cannot claim to protect children if it is only willing to do so selectively. This is not about slogans. It is about the daily, often unseen ways we model our values: in what we publish, what we teach, and what we refuse to name. Palestinian children are not collateral. They are not too complex or too controversial to grieve. They are children, entitled to safety, dignity, and care.” https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/what-if-they-were-ours British Psychological Society and BDS A group of psychologists are aiming to hold the British Psychological Society (BPS) to account over the genocide and to get the BPS to commit to the Palestinian-led call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (https://bdsmovement.net/) If you are a member of the BPS and want to be involved, please contact: Artemis: artichristinaki@gmail.com or Ian: discourseunit@gmail.com “Pull a Baby Out of Your Bag?” The Question That Exposes a Genocide. Source: Lama Khouri (from the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network) writing in CounterPunch Date: 30 July It was January 2025 […] I stood with other seasoned professionals in the Capitol Hill lobby, planning our day of advocacy for Palestine. […] We were a quiet crowd when four or five guards approached. One of them — short, stocky, visibly angry– began shouting as if shooing away a herd of animals: “This is your first warning. If you do not disperse, I will arrest all of you!” We shuffled slightly, exchanging quizzical glances, unsure what had triggered such fury. Then came the line that would haunt me: “What are you going to do now, pull a baby out of your bag?” In seven words, this guard had unknowingly exposed the mechanism by which an entire society can watch children starve on their screens and remain unmoved. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/30/pull-a-baby-out-of-your-bag-the-question-that-exposes-a-genocide/ The Prime Minister – after 20 months of negotiation – has approved the Project Pure Hope proposal for a government scheme to medically evacuate a cohort or 30 children from Gaza to the UK Source: Project Pure Hope Date: 26 July A Co-Founder of Project Pure Hope (an initiative by private citizens) providing a powerful description of the work of the project and the most recent developments in an extended Sky News interview (approximately 5 minutes): https://www.instagram.com/p/DMkfcRgoJpe/ Project Pure Hope website: https://www.purehope.co.uk/ “Our Genocide”: Israel is Committing Genocide in the Gaza Strip Source: B’Tselem (Israeli human rights organisation) Date: 28 July Friends and partners, It’s almost impossible to comprehend, but for nearly two years, Israel has been committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. As Israelis and Palestinians who live here, and who are exposed daily to testimonies and lived reality, it is our duty to speak the honest and whole truth. […] In our new report, we present facts, data and testimonies that demonstrate how Israel is systematically destroying Palestinian society in Gaza through creating catastrophic living conditions that make continued existence impossible. This, precisely, is the definition of genocide. Press release: https://mailchi.mp/btselem/18act4vnza-9433659?e=3bc8bb3a1e Report launch video (7 minutes): https://youtu.be/OngVkKu6rHk?si=0JIyYE0oHQJSdAvo Full Report: https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202507_our_genocide_eng.pdf Destruction of Conditions of Life: A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide Source: Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) Date: 28 July “This report documents the Israeli assault for what it is: a deliberate, cumulative, and ongoing dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system – and of the population’s ability to survive. Its meaning: genocide.” PHRI news release: https://www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-in-gaza-eng/ Full report: https://www.phr.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Genocide-in-Gaza-PHRI-English.pdf Children who refuse to give up hope in a hopeless world Source: Middle East Eye (short video) Date: 25 July A group of children on Egypt’s northern Sinai coast have begun throwing plastic bottles filled with rice, pasta, and grains into the sea, hoping the tide will carry them to Gaza. One of the children, Janaat Abdon, said the idea was to send food “from the children of Sinai to the children of Gaza”. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMinfCbIeJn/ ACTIONSWANT TO TAKE ACTION? We have 13 actions posted in July and ready to go on our dedicated Actions Page: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/28/gaza-israel-aid-starvation-children FEATURED ACTION DAY OF ACTION – STOP STARVING GAZA – Pots and Pans protests Friday 1 August at 6pm After last Friday’s national day of action we must keep the pressure up. Join us in towns across Britain as we once more lay down pots and pans to represent those starved to death by Israel’s genocidal blockade and demand our politicians take action to end Israel’s starvation of Gaza. Nationwide actions – details of local actions will be available here: https://palestinecampaign.org/events/day-of-action-stop-starving-gaza-pots-and-pans-protests/ EVENTSWANT TO NETWORK, LEARN AND SHOW SOLIDARITY? Our Events Page lists 16 curated events taking place in July, August and September: https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ FEATURED EVENT Between Sky and Sea Exhibition Saturday 2 August from 3pm – 11pm Palestine House, London WC1V 6JJ Between Sky and Sea is a photography exhibition by the late Palestinian artist Ismail Abu Hatab, created remotely from Gaza during the 2023–2024 war. Despite severe injuries and living under siege, Abu Hatab documented the lives of displaced Palestinians caught “between sky and sea” — exposed to war, weather, and waiting. Between Sky and Sea is an immersive exhibition that seeks to convey the emotional and physical reality of displacement experienced in Gaza, those who were forced to live in fragile tents along the coastline, with only fabric walls between them and the sky, the sea, and the constant threat of bombardment. Set within a symbolic tent echoing Gaza’s camps, the exhibition combines immersive visuals and audio to explore exile, memory, and resilience. It centres people—not objects—as the heart of its sensory storytelling. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/palestinehouse/1782602 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). ”German retail giant Aldi reportedly stopped Israeli imports due to boycott pressure https://www.instagram.com/p/DMCYDnktI4L/ Airbnb: Stop Listing Properties On Stolen Land! Source: CODEPINK Date: July 2025 Sign our petition to let Airbnb know that perpetuating Israel’s violations of international law is reprehensible. Airbnb has previously taken down listings on illegal settlements in 2018 and we can pressure them to do it again!  https://www.codepink.org/stopairbnb

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

UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Monday 21 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. National March for Palestine Saturday 19 July – Assemble 12 noon at Embankment station As our government seeks to repress the movement for Palestine, and Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, it is more important than ever that we continue to show solidarity with Palestine and pressure our government to #StopArmingIsrael. Join us as we march in London for Palestine once more. https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-stop-starving-gaza/ On the final day of #FASTFORGAZA on Monday 14 July, fasters and supporters marched from Parliament to the Foreign Office to deliver a letter of protest. The letter calls for: “The resumption of food provision by the regular agencies which have a proven success record in effectively delivering aid”. It is signed in the name of the four UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Steering Group members and more than 100 activists who took part in the fast.  Letter delivered to David Lammy: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/letter-to-foreign-secretary-14-july-2025/ 3-minute video of fasters and supporters delivering the letter, including a summary at the end of the Fast by Gwyn Daniel: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/delivery-of-fast-for-gaza-letter-to-foreign-secretary/ FAST FOR GAZA – SUMMARY AND FEEDBACK The Fast for Gaza concluded on Monday 14 July with participants marching from Parliament to the Foreign Office, delivering a letter demanding the resumption of UNRWA aid and the dismantling of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Participants and supporters overwhelmingly praised the event, highlighting renewed commitment, solidarity, and emotional support across diverse religious and secular communities. The public response was largely positive, notably aided by a scroll displaying the names of Gazans killed on July 2nd, which effectively attracted attention and facilitated meaningful conversations. Twelve MPs and two Lords visited the demonstration, underscoring its political visibility. Although symbolic, the fast significantly boosted solidarity, communicated strong support to people in Gaza, and inspired similar events, including a planned fast in Glasgow in early August. The organisers encourage further local actions and urge continued advocacy through MPs.Read the full report here: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/fast-for-gaza-final-report/ A large selection of photos and videos from Fast for Gaza bearing witness to the outrage and commitment of activists and supporters is available on this page: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/fast-for-gaza/ “A moment amongst the horror to feel the warmth and comradeship of our group. And it was truly an honour and privilege to spend the day with you.” “Let us fight for Gaza as we have never fought before.” “The other pleasing feedback came from the frequent ‘crocodiles’ of schoolchildren who would invariably, on seeing us, start shouting en masse: ‘Free Palestine!’” Cafe Palestine: Listen to Gaza A live link-up with mental health workers in Gaza, organised jointly by the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK), took place on Saturday 12 July. There will be a full report about this meeting in the next mailing.  Mental health in Gaza: a war on babies, children and families Source: Britain Palestine Project Date: Video and podcast of event that took place on 10 July The recording features child psychotherapist Teresa Bailey, discussing the profound psychological impact of the Gaza conflict on infants, children and families, as presented via the Britain Palestine Project. The programme explores intergenerational trauma and disrupted childhood development amidst ongoing violence. https://britainpalestineproject.org/mental-health/ Arabic language book group discussing “Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding” by Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian Source: USA-Palestine Mental Health Network Date:  The Arabic language group will have six 90-minutes sessions on Sundays: 21 September – 26 October  12:30-2:00 pm (Eastern time) / 5:30-7:00 pm (UK) To deepen our understanding of “unchilding” and inspire people across the mental health community and beyond to act to stop the atrocities committed by the State of Israel, we are hosting reading/discussion groups about Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding by Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian (Cambridge University Press, 2019). The book centres the lived experiences of Palestinian children through their own words and the words of their parents. Many of the experiences are unspeakable and the author documents how memories of violations reside in embodied forms, transcending generations within Palestinian families. [..] https://mailchi.mp/187e9cd98da5/arabic-language-group-for-incarcerated-childhood-and-the-politics-of-unchilding-fall-41805 Jeff Halper’s July 2025 update – we’re in the end game Source: ICAHD (Committee Against House Demolitions) Date: 9 July This ICAHD update assesses the intensifying situation in Israel-Palestine, warning that the conflict has reached a critical “endgame” stage. It analyses geopolitical dynamics, including how developments like proposed “humanitarian cities” mask deeper strategies of displacement. https://icahd.org/2025/07/09/jeff-halpers-july-2025-update-were-in-the-end-game/ At Hague Group Emergency Summit, 30+ Nations Seek to “Halt the Genocide in Gaza” Host nation Colombia’s deputy foreign minister said participants “will not only reaffirm their commitment to opposing genocide, but also formulate concrete steps to move from words to collective action.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/hague-group-summit-colombia ACTIONSOur Featured Action is available below and also on our dedicated Actions page. In the past 4 weeks we have added 7 new, relevant actions to our Action page. https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ FEATURED ACTION Francesca Albanese urges users to boycott airbnb and Booking.com https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL-Qf1ExGIG/ EVENTS Our Events page is updated weekly with events related to Palestine and mental health. As of 16 July, there are 10 up to date events listed. https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ The myth of anti‑racism in British mental health care Source: Healing Justice LDN Date: 22 July This online event launches a research project investigating how Palestinian solidarity is marginalised within British mental health care. Speakers will explore racism in institutions, training, and therapy, spotlighting voices usually silenced. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-myth-of-anti-racism-in-british-mental-health-care-online-tickets-1441078146529 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).” Unite union votes for Israel arms embargo Source: Novaramedia Date: Monday 14 July Unite, one of the largest trade unions in the UK, has voted to support members who refuse to build, handle or transport weapons destined for Israel and for a full arms embargo on Israel. Unite’s policy conference passed a statement which commits the union to support worker-led campaigns to boycott the handling of Israeli goods, as well as campaigns for divestment from Israeli companies. The passage of the statement constitutes a breakthrough for pro-Palestine campaigners within the union. https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/14/unite-votes-for-israel-arms-embargo/ Top Economists Back Francesca Albanese’s Report on the ‘Economy of Genocide’ in Gaza Source: Zeteo Date: 7 July Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, and others join open letter supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine. https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-top-economists-back-francesca Italian supermarket chain Coop switches Israeli products for Gaza Cola https://www.instagram.com/p/DLXkZQntskw/

UKPALMHN Solidarity Space
Monday 14 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 write to ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to this meeting.

CAFE PALESTINE: LISTEN TO GAZA
SATURDAY 12 JULY
11:00-12:30 (UK) / 13.00-14.30 (Palestine)
Cafe Palestine: Listen to Gaza
A joint event between the Palestine Trauma Centre UK (https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk/) and the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
Hosted by Mohamed Altawil, David Harrold and Gwyn Daniel

In this event we aim to provide you with live updates from our Mental Health colleagues in Gaza on the impact of nearly two years of genocide on them, the community and the families they work with. We will hear first-hand about the profound suffering that bombing, killing, infrastructure destruction, displacement and starvation are causing. Together with the Gaza team we will also share news about some of the ongoing psychological support they continue to provide for parents and children even in these utterly dire and dangerous conditions.

This event will be dependent on the internet connection our colleagues in Gaza can obtain on the day so we will not give in advance the names of the participants from Gaza and neither can we give a detailed programme. But we will have many testimonies to share directly or indirectly. We hope you will join to give the widest possible audience for our steadfast and heroic colleagues in Gaza. They must know they are not alone.

Please write to ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to this meeting.

A new poem by Dr. Saeed Mohammed Al-Kahlout of the Palestine Trauma Center (UK)

We deserve a more dignified death.
A death that grants time for mourning —
time to weep,
to pause by the grave —
I refuse to call it a hole —
to cry for the ones lost,
to scold them gently for leaving too soon,
to beg them to return,
even for a moment,
so we might rewrite a few pages of the story.
[…]

Full poem: 
https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/we-deserve-a-more-dignified-death/

UKPALMHN FAST FOR GAZA
Now in its second week
From 1 July – 14 July daily from 9am to 7pm
outside Parliament
#FASTFORGAZA

The FAST FOR GAZA started outside Parliament on Tuesday 1 July and will last for 14 days from 9am – 7pm with a group of 4 volunteers fasting for ten hours. The purpose of this symbolic fast is to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and to highlight that the situation remains absolutely catastrophic. Gwyn Daniel, a member of the UKPMHN Steering Group has recorded a video providing more information about the event. The first week of the fast has been very positive. The fasters and activists have engaged with the public and been visited by a number of MPs, activists and other well-known supporters. On our website there are photos of each daily group of fasters. There are also currently 24 short videos of the fasters, activists and well-known supporters recording their message to the people of Gaza and explaining why they are supporting the fast. UPDATE! On Monday 14 July, the last day of the fast, we will walk together from Parliament (Carriage Gate) to the Foreign Office to deliver a letter to David Lammy urging the resumption of aid through trusted channels and for the dismantling of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. We will do this between 4.30pm and 5pm. Please come and join us if you can! You can find daily updated photos and videos on: Website: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/fast-for-gaza/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ukpmhn/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKPMHN Hashtag: #FASTFORGAZA WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write to your MP and encourage them to demonstrate their solidarity by visiting the fasters outside Parliament. Urge them to record a 1-minute video with a message to the people of Gaza that we will publish on our website and social media.We recommend this moving introduction to the FAST FOR GAZA by Gwyn Daniel, a member of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Steering Group. She introduces the fast and then reads an up to date message from a contact in Gaza. National March for Palestine Saturday 19 July – Assemble 12 noon at Embankment station As our government seeks to repress the movement for Palestine and Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza its more important than ever that we continue to show solidarity with Palestine and pressure our government to #StopArmingIsrael. Join us as we march in London for Palestine once more. https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-stop-starving-gaza/ The UK-Palestine Mental Health Network banner will be at the march. We will assemble at 11:45 in Charing Cross Station close to Platform 1. All are welcome to join us. An excerpt from Dr. Samah Jabr’s lecture for the American University of Beirut, reflecting on the difference between therapy and healing in the context of collective trauma Source: Dr Samah Jabr Date: 3 July https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samah-jabr-25509883_an-excerpt-from-dr-samah-jabrs-lecture-activity-7346164559650418688-w13O/ ACTIONS Our Featured Action is available below and also on our dedicated Actions page. In the past 4 weeks we have added 7 new, relevant actions to our Action page. https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ FEATURED ACTION A call to boycott the Society of Psychotherapy Research (SPR) for its complicity in Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine Source: USA-Palestine Mental Health Network Date: 7 July Since its inception, the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network has initiated and supported the “Don’t Go” (https://usapalmhn.org/about-dont-go/) and “Do No Harm” (https://usapalmhn.org/portfolio-item/the-do-no-harm-campaign/) campaigns that expose the complicity of an identified mental health organisation with institutions of Israeli settler colonial apartheid. We endorse the call to boycott the Society of Psychotherapy Research (SPR) for its complicity in Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine. We urge you to read this statement and add your endorsement. https://mailchi.mp/444a10dd37f7/call-to-boycott-spr EVENTS Our Events page is updated weekly with events related to Palestine and mental health. As of 9 July, there are 14 up to date events listed. https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ FEATURED EVENTS Teresa Bailey, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Steering Committee member, is speaking at a Britain Palestine Project webinar on Thursday 10 July at 3pm (UK time)

Human Rights Defenders: Resisting Settler Terrorism
Tuesday 15 July at 6:00pm (UK)
Organised by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (webinar)
With Issa Amro, Youth Against Settlements, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Torat Tzedek
Settler violence in the West Bank has surged since 7th October 2023 while the world’s attention has focused on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Palestinians living in the rural parts of Area C are most vulnerable. […] But setter violence does not only occur in Area C. Extreme religious settlers seek to displace Palestinians living in Hebron where the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, near the Ibrahimi Mosque (the Tomb of the Patriarchs) is located).[…] Attend this one-hour webinar to receive the latest updates on settler violence, why it has intensified, and how this phenomenon is being resisted.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BPI7Fb2QTzW4uG8ebbXANw

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).”

Conference – Free Palestine: BDS at 20
Saturday 12 July
Palestine Solidarity Campaign are hosting a landmark conference in central London to mark 20 years since the Palestinian call for BDS, and to chart the way forward for our campaigning in Britain after nearly 21 months of protest against Israel’s genocide. We’ll be joined by a range of inspiring speakers, including Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement, to discuss how to ramp up our boycott campaigns against complicit corporations like Barclays, continue to win divestment from councils and universities, and push for sanctions on Israel.
https://shop.palestinecampaign.org/products/conference-free-palestine-bds-at-20

UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Monday 7 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 write to ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to this meeting. Hold the date Cafe Palestine – Listening to Gaza Saturday 12 July at 11:00 (UK time) More details to follow Are you feeling desperate and powerless at the mass murder and starvation in Gaza? Here is an act of solidarity you can join .. .UK-PALESTINE MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK FAST FOR GAZA We recommend this moving introduction to the FAST FOR GAZA by Gwyn Daniel, a member of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Steering Group. She introduces the fast and then reads an up to date message from a contact in Gaza.

The FAST FOR GAZA started outside Parliament on Tuesday 1 July and will last for 14 days from 9am – 7pm with a group of 4 volunteers fasting for ten hours. The purpose of this symbolic fast is to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and to highlight that the situation remains absolutely catastrophic. Gwyn Daniel, a member of the UKPMHN Steering Group recorded a video providing more information about the event.

During the first two days, the fasters have been visited by a number of MPs:
Adnan Hussein, Ayoub Khan, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussein, Jeremy Corbyn, John Trickett, Richard Burgon, and Shokat Adam.

Others who have participated in or visited the fast include:
Avi Shlaim, Jenny Manson, Laura Alvarez,  Oreet Ashery, Penny Green,  Victoria Brittain

Photos, videos and further information are available at this dedicated page:
https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/fast-for-gaza/

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Write to your MP and encourage them to demonstrate their solidrity by visiting the fasters outside Parliament. Urge them to record a 1-minute video with a message to the people of Gaza that we will publish on our website and social media.

Please respond to this address gwynfast4gaza@gmail.com to register your interest for the FAST FOR GAZA and you will be sent further details and a document on which you can indicate the day/days on which you can join us.

Up to date information about the FAST FOR GAZA can be found on this page (and will be updated throughout the event):https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/fast-for-gaza/

Jeremy Corbyn, MP, speaking at the launch of FAST FOR GAZA outside Parliament on Tuesday 1 July.

Israeli impunity and the neo‑colonial system that dehumanises Palestinians
Source: Palestine-Global Mental Health Network writing in CounterPunch
Date:20 June
A political analysis that examines how systemic dispossession and dehumanisation underpin Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, framing it as part of a larger neo‑colonial structure. It argues that this entrenched framework enables widespread impunity for violations against Indigenous Palestinians.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/20/israeli-impunity-and-the-neo-colonial-system-that-dehumanizes-palestinians/

MedEvac 4 Gaza’s Children: briefing paper
MedEvac 4 Gaza’s Children is a group of doctors, nurses and other professionals who work with children. Many of the medical staff have worked in Gaza for some years, The aim of the group is to campaign for and facilitate the evacuation of critically ill (for example: cancer, diabetes, kidney failure) or children severely injured by bombs, shrapnel, gunshots from Gaza to countries that can provide specialist treatment and rehabilitation since all the hospitals, specialist clinics and rehab facilities have been deliberately destroyed and many medical staff murdered or abducted. 
Many countries around the world have helped evacuate these children and provided treatment. This includes the US which has welcomed many children. The UK has accepted 2. 
The aim of the briefing was to inform MPs of the urgent need to evacuate these children. If Israel had not destroyed the health system in Gaza (with tacit support from the UK) there would be no need for evacuation.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/14b9wZe0bf7vsjACSb__y36Io04ZTMbqXdD0IC3q1rrc/mobilebasic

The British Medical Association (BMA) motions supporting for Palestinian rights
Source: BMA
Date: 25 June
At its 2025 Annual Representative Meeting, the BMA passed motions affirming that criticism of Israel’s actions is not inherently antisemitic, and supporting the right of doctors and students to advocate for Palestinian rights without facing disciplinary action. The BMA condemned the destruction of hospitals and the deaths of healthcare workers in Gaza, calling these grave breaches of international law. The motions urged the UK government to support international investigations into potential war crimes, called for the release of detained healthcare workers, and demanded unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza. The BMA also reaffirmed its previous calls for upholding international humanitarian law and protecting healthcare workers, while stressing its commitment to opposing all forms of antisemitism and protecting freedom of expression within the medical profession.
https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/arm-2025-bma-passes-resolutions-on-international-relations

From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide
Source: UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Date: July 2025
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide. The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg and ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives. International law recognises varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end the genocide and to dismantle the global system that has allowed it.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

UNICEF UK Ambassador Jemima Khan speaks to James Elder on the current situation for Children in Gaza
Source: UNICEF UK
Date: 30 June
UNICEF UK Ambassador Jemima Khan interviewed UNICEF Global Spokesperson James Elder whilst he was in Gaza earlier this month. James shares his firsthand account of what he has seen and why the situation for children continues to get worse. This is the most critical moment for Gaza’s children since this brutal war began. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU7OoLcMNfM

Israeli soldiers killed at least 410 people at food aid sites in Gaza in June
Source: The Intercept
Date: 27 June
An investigative report alleging that Israeli forces have killed Palestinians attempting to access humanitarian aid in Gaza, highlighting cases where people were shot during food distribution operations. It calls into question the conduct of military units operating around aid sites.
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/27/israel-killed-palestinians-food-aid-gaza/

Channel 4 to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Source: Channel 4
Date: 28 June
A press release announcing that Channel 4 will air the BBC‑commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, following its shelving by the BBC. The film profiles medical workers in Gaza who have operated under fire during the conflict.
https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-broadcast-gaza-doctors-under-attack

Beyond the West Bank: the new frontier of Israel’s settlement expansion
On Thursday evening, 26th June, Channel 4 News broadcast a strong 12-minute report entitled Beyond the West Bank: the new frontier of Israel’s settlement expansion filmed over three years about the demolition of Palestinian homes both in the West Bank and within the state of Israel, locations all highlighted by ICAHD over the years.
Watch this important documentary; forward it to your networks and to your MP. Then congratulate Channel 4 News for telling this story. Leave comments on the page or write to: 

C4Nstories@itn.co.uk. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kRsu2kMPM

“I realise it can make some media outlets nervous, but what we’re seeing here is genocide.” James Smith, an emergency doctor who has worked in Gaza, says newborn babies dying of starvation is a “deliberate policy” by Israel.
Source: LBC
Date: 28 June
https://www.24vids.com/video/i-realise-it-can-make-some-media-outlets-nervous-but-what-were-seeing-here-is-p-tw-1938913963334402453

ACTIONS

Our Featured Action is available below and also on our dedicated Actions page. In the past 4 weeks we have added 10 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 25 June, there are 11 up to date events listed.
https://ukpalmhn.com/events/

FEATURED EVENT

Palestine: Repair & Return – Stories of Art and Drama
Thursday 3 July 2025 at 6.30pm (UK time)
Presented by Theatre for Everybody (Gaza) & Az Theatre (London)
A public conversation in-person at P21 Gallery, 21-23 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD and online.
This event will raise, and listen to, the voices of arts, drama and theatre practitioners in Palestine and throughout the world talking about how their work continues in the midst of genocide, struggle for liberation, displacement and armed violence, and how vital it is.
https://mailchi.mp/45d9d04a1a7a/coming-full-circle-back-to-our-centre-stories-of-art-and-drama
Call for co-creators:
The organisers are keen to establish links with individuals, groups, and organisations with experience working in four areas. 1. food sovereignty, 2. with detainees, including those who have survived abuse and torture, 3. disability 4. homelessness/displacement.
Your expertise would be appreciated and highly valued. We would love to have you on board in some way. These events are public conversations exploring how values and insights might converge with the prospect of joint action later.
For further information please contact:
Naomi: naymicole@gmail.com or
Jonathan: info@aztheatre.org.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).”

The Co-op will implement boycott of Israeli goods
Major BDS victory!
The Co-op has announced that it will implement the motion passed at its AGM last month by ending the sourcing of products from Israel. All Israeli whole products will now be removed from the shelves.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLSGSejoyM5/

Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign (Palestine Solidarity Campaign):
https://palestinecampaign.org/campaigns/dont-buy-apartheid/

How to join the Co-op (costs £1):
https://www.coop.co.uk/membership