A examine on the implications of Israeli human rights violations on the bodily and psychological well being of ladies within the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian ladies within the Gaza Strip have skilled a number of and recurrent human rights violations attributable to Israel’s navy occupation, blockade, and ongoing navy aggression. As a end result, ladies expertise persistent, inter-generational, and long-term psychological and bodily outcomes that manifest all through their lives. They have felt threatened, have been injured by the Israeli navy, misplaced relations, and confronted diversified restrictions attributable to Israel’s blockade.

Together with the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), we carried out a examine on the implications of Israeli human rights violations on the bodily and psychological well being of greater than 400 ladies who participated within the examine. The examine, the results of a 2-year joint mission between PHRI and GCMHP specializing in Palestinian ladies in Gaza, reveals a transparent hyperlink between publicity to human rights violations and psychological misery.