An injured child receives treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after Israeli airstrike of the Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip. © 2023 UNRWA Photo by Ashraf Amra.

A call from the International Palestine Mental Health Networks

We, the International Palestine Mental Health Networks, mark three years of genocide. Let the record speak.

Since October 2023, we have witnessed unfathomable carnage. For the first time in human history, a genocide was livestreamed on our phones. More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and that is an undercount. Over twenty-three months, one Palestinian child was killed every hour. A UN Commission of Inquiry found that Israeli forces deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children. Ninety-nine American doctors and nurses who served in Gaza wrote to President Biden that they had witnessed “crimes beyond comprehension.” Every one of them who worked in emergency, intensive care, or surgery treated young children shot in the head or chest, regularly, even daily. They wrote that this violence must have been deliberately directed at children, and that shooting on this scale, sustained for a year, could not be accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civilian and military authorities. We have witnessed a man-made famine, with children no more than skin and bones on our screens. Torture and sexualized violence against Palestinian........

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