The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) has released a report highlighting profoundly concerning levels of mental health disorders among Palestinians in Gaza, particularly among women and children as a result of Israel prolonged war on Gaza.
Published on Tuesday, the report underscored that Israel’s persistent military atrocities in the Gaza enclave have developed an “unprecedented mental health crisis,” the repercussions of which are expected to reverberate across generations.
According to the findings, Gaza’s children are depicted as enduring a perpetual state of tragedy, marked by symptoms such as insomnia, somnambulism, night terrors, incessant trembling, and nocturnal enuresis.
A Palestinian father recounted to GCMHP that his child involuntarily wets the bed upon hearing the approach of Israeli warplanes and drones overhead.
For some children, these distressing conditions escalate into severe mental health disorders. For instance, the report cites the case of a 13-year-old who experiences both visual and auditory hallucinations, indicative of the profound psychological toll inflicted by the ongoing conflict.
Since Gaza war on October 7, more than 16000 children have been killed by Israeli forces, and other dozen thousands are expected to develop mental health truma after war.
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