Palestinian mental health crisis: effects of long-term war

Africa News
Jul 18, 2024

Palestinian mental health crisis: effects of long-term war


Nabila Hamada gave birth to twin boys in Gaza during the early stages of the conflict, in a hospital overwhelmed with the smell of death and crowded with displaced individuals.

When the hospital came under threat from Israeli forces, she and her husband escaped with just one of the infants, as medical personnel deemed the other too fragile to move.

Nabila Hamada, a mother who lost one of her new-born twins in the war said, "I never imagined that I would see these things, all that would happen to me when I went to give birth, that I would lose my child and not know where he is, I want my son, I want him back. "

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are grappling with their mental health following nine months of war, and she is one of them.