1. Disaster and Mental Health
   The Palestinian Experience
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2005
   The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
2. Fighting For The Right To Walk
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Israel has denied the residents of Gaza -- children and adults -- Gaza food, medical supplies, clean water, building materials, health care, and pretty much every other element of normal life, and in doing so has violated the most basic standards of human decency.
3. Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A Palestinian non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1990 to provide comprehensive community mental health services - therapy, training and research - to the population of the Gaza Strip.
4. Gaza: Health System in Collapse
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s basic infrastructure and Israel’s closure of all Gaza’s borders.
5. Gaza: Health System in Collapse
   News Release May 5, 2008
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   
6. Gaza's Shocking Devastation
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
7. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
   
8. Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   During Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 – January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly—the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.

Experts on Gaza Strip in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library
2. Electronic Intifada
3. Independent Jewish Voices
4. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
5. Zatoun