May 27, 2020
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Dr Samah Jabr The COVID-19 pandemic has the seeds for a mental health crisis around the world; in Palestine it highlights pre-existing challenges in mental health provision. Although Palestinians have survived previous episodes of...
April 22, 2020
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Dr Samah Jabr I write this on a day that saw the confirmation of a sudden and delayed rise of Covid-19 cases among Palestinians in the small neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem....
February 14, 2020
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Dr Samah Jabr In March, a field hospital being built by Israeli aid group Natan in conjunction the American Evangelical Christian organisation Friend Ships will start operating in the northern Gaza Strip near the...
November 21, 2019
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Dr Samah Jabr A mother came to me in the wake of her son’s suicide. She had consulted a Sheikh – in this case someone who claimed to be a religious leader...
August 20, 2019
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Dr Samah Jabr Traumatised patients who I see in my office often express negativistic mistrust when I ask them about their feelings: “It is humiliating to complain to anyone other than God”;...
July 9, 2019
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Dr Samah Jabr A commitment to Palestine binds together many Arab, Muslim and other marginalised minorities in the West, generating strong emotional, ideological and political support. The nature of this bond often...
May 18, 2019
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Dr Samah Jabr While Israel was celebrating its independence day earlier this week, I heard two anecdotes. One story was related to me by Jerusalemite friends working in Israeli institutions, who told...
November 29, 2018
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Dr Samah Jabr In the field of medicine, we often speak of the social determinants of health. In Palestine, not only social, but political determinants of health have a grave impact on...
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US October 1, 2018
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Dr Samah Jabr More than 55 per cent of Palestinians living in the occupied territories were born after the signing of the Oslo Accords 25 years ago. What is life like for...
August 11, 2018
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Dr Samah Jabr On a few occasions, my mother has awakened me anxiously to let me know who is the latest to be arrested for a Facebook statement, and to warn me...
May 15, 2018
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Dr Samah Jabr A French colleague once asked me, “Why are the Palestinians stuck in the Nakba? They commemorate villages no longer present on any map and bequeath to their children the...
March 8, 2018
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Dr Samah Jabr The occupation of Palestine has fallen into universal oblivion. In the face of this void, however, there are still Palestinians who attempt to affirm their selfhood through challenging the...
December 24, 2017
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Dr Samah Jabr The latest religious and racial slurs embodied in the Trump administration’s decision to transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem has rubbed salt into the ever-open wound of Israel’s occupation...
November 14, 2017
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Dr Samah Jabr In our stressful state of occupation, there is, among other ills, an essentialist view of Israeli and Palestinian characteristics. In the many public talks that I have given to...
August 29, 2017
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Dr Samah Jabr In a psychotic state, a 16 year old young woman patient from the West Bank went beyond the confines of her own boundaries: “I saw the sky turned red...
March 16, 2017
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Dr Samah Jabr From those who are willing to legitimise killing and torture in support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the fabrication of lies and false accusations to intimidate their opponents...
February 16, 2017
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Dr Samah Jabr After 100 years, Britain seems to be at the same moral stage as it was when UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to a leader of the British Jewish...
June 30, 2016
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Dr Samah Jabr While the exercise of military control over an occupied country may be expected to inflict inevitable pain and trauma on the citizens of that country, the history of Israeli...
April 21, 2016
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Dr Samah Jabr When Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to the Israeli-American donor Haim Saban against the popular and peaceful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, she described “the Jewish state” as...
Neither the fact nor the brutal manner of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s cruel assassination on 22 March 2004 was surprising, nor was Israel’s indifference to the severe human cost paid...
While the world was celebrating New Year’s Eve in 2015, with all of its promise for the coming year, dozens of Palestinian families were receiving the frozen bodies of...
The Israeli parliament has recently approved a law that allows the sentencing of up to 20 years in prison for Palestinians who throw stones, individuals who are usually minors....
When I arrived in Paris on the evening of Friday, 13 November, my host asked our taxi driver to take us to her home at Fontaine au Roi; the...
During President Yasser Arafat’s hospitalisation in France, just before his death, I travelled from Paris to Cairo to spend the end of Ramadan and the Eid holiday in an...
Incitement is a “one size fits all” accusation, constructed especially to frighten Palestinians who voice opposition to the tightening of Israeli policies that already suffocate the community. The Israeli...
President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN, which had been preceded by inflated propaganda claiming that it would be a “bombshell”, turned out to be no more than a...
An apple a day keeps the occupation away. That appears to be the message from a new Palestinian Authority TV commercial. The apple here is not the famous fruit...
‘Man shall not live on bread alone’ The Palestinian elections of 2006 displeased Western powers. In the aftermath of the ensuing economic boycott of Palestine, our president told us...
It is not the youth of Shufat this time! On my way to the Old City of Jerusalem from my neighbourhood of Shufat at the end of April, I...
Ali, 8, suffers from allergies which cause a frequent nasal discharge. Running out of tissues during class, he asked his classmates for some but the teacher scolded him. “You...
Sixty-seven years after the massive expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands, the scene in Palestine is grimmer than ever. We observe for example that following almost a...
Land Day commemorates the events of 30 March, 1976 when Palestinians from the Galilee to the Negev organised a massive strike to protest against the Israeli confiscation of land,...
![A Palestinian doctor is seen at the head of the COVID-19 clinic at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa on 16 April 2020 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/palestinian-doctor-at-coronavirus-clinic.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The COVID-19 pandemic has the seeds for a mental health crisis around the world; in Palestine it highlights pre-existing challenges in mental health provision. Although Palestinians have survived previous episodes of...![A Palestinian volunteer wearing a protective suit measures the temperature of people entering the village of Ain Yabrud near Ramallah controls amid the COVID-19 pandemic, on 6 April, 2020 [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GettyImages-1209339955-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
I write this on a day that saw the confirmation of a sudden and delayed rise of Covid-19 cases among Palestinians in the small neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem....![Palestinian students play during an entertaining day at their school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in Gaza city, on November 18, 2019 [Ashraf Amra / ApaImages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/181119_ASH_00-40.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In March, a field hospital being built by Israeli aid group Natan in conjunction the American Evangelical Christian organisation Friend Ships will start operating in the northern Gaza Strip near the...![[file photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2013_7_19-Suicide-with-pillsΑυτοκτονία_με_την_λήψη_φαρμάκου-δηλητηρίου.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A mother came to me in the wake of her son’s suicide. She had consulted a Sheikh – in this case someone who claimed to be a religious leader...![Image of the Palestinian child who was nearly run over by a Israeli settler [maannews]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016_12_22-Palestinian-crying-child-1-e1566317150659.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Traumatised patients who I see in my office often express negativistic mistrust when I ask them about their feelings: “It is humiliating to complain to anyone other than God”;...![Palestinians in Gaza protest against German Parliament decision on BDS, in Gaza on 23 May 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/651A9980.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A commitment to Palestine binds together many Arab, Muslim and other marginalised minorities in the West, generating strong emotional, ideological and political support. The nature of this bond often...![Palestinian students sit inside a classroom at their school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on 29 August, 2018 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/290818_ASH_00-37.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While Israel was celebrating its independence day earlier this week, I heard two anecdotes. One story was related to me by Jerusalemite friends working in Israeli institutions, who told...![Palestinian children play outside their home in Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip, 9 November , 2013 [Eyad Al Baba/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-20_palestinian-childpalestine-child.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In the field of medicine, we often speak of the social determinants of health. In Palestine, not only social, but political determinants of health have a grave impact on...![Palestinians take part in a protest on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Oslo accords, in Gaza on 16 September 2018 [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Palestinians-take-part-in-a-protest-on-the-occasion-of-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-Oslo-160918_ASH_00-5.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
More than 55 per cent of Palestinians living in the occupied territories were born after the signing of the Oslo Accords 25 years ago. What is life like for...![Israeli forces intervene in a protest against construction of Israeli settlement and separation wall at Kafr Qaddum village in Nablus, West Bank on 28 July, 2018 [Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180728_2_31675672_36011612.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On a few occasions, my mother has awakened me anxiously to let me know who is the latest to be arrested for a Facebook statement, and to warn me...
A French colleague once asked me, “Why are the Palestinians stuck in the Nakba? They commemorate villages no longer present on any map and bequeath to their children the...![Mental Health Conference in Gaza [Gaza Community Mental Health Program]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GazaHoldMentalHealthConferenceAPRIL2016-10.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The occupation of Palestine has fallen into universal oblivion. In the face of this void, however, there are still Palestinians who attempt to affirm their selfhood through challenging the...![Protestors take part in a demonstration against US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France on December 09, 2017 [Nedim / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171210_2_27416907_28684884.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The latest religious and racial slurs embodied in the Trump administration’s decision to transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem has rubbed salt into the ever-open wound of Israel’s occupation...![Israeli security forces brutally arrest Palestinian protesters in West Bank [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161117_2_20194422_16125719.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In our stressful state of occupation, there is, among other ills, an essentialist view of Israeli and Palestinian characteristics. In the many public talks that I have given to...
In a psychotic state, a 16 year old young woman patient from the West Bank went beyond the confines of her own boundaries: “I saw the sky turned red...![Palestinian protesters pray during a demonstration against Jewish settlements in the Palestinian village of Deir Estia in the occupied West Bank on 2 April 2010 [Najeh Hashlamoun/Apaimages]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20124_2-A-Palestinian-protesters-attend-Friday-prayers-during-a-demonstration-against-Jewish-settlements.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
From those who are willing to legitimise killing and torture in support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the fabrication of lies and false accusations to intimidate their opponents...
While the exercise of military control over an occupied country may be expected to inflict inevitable pain and trauma on the citizens of that country, the history of Israeli...
When Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to the Israeli-American donor Haim Saban against the popular and peaceful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, she described “the Jewish state” as...
Neither the fact nor the brutal manner of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s cruel assassination on 22 March 2004 was surprising, nor was Israel’s indifference to the severe human cost paid...
While the world was celebrating New Year’s Eve in 2015, with all of its promise for the coming year, dozens of Palestinian families were receiving the frozen bodies of...
The Israeli parliament has recently approved a law that allows the sentencing of up to 20 years in prison for Palestinians who throw stones, individuals who are usually minors....
When I arrived in Paris on the evening of Friday, 13 November, my host asked our taxi driver to take us to her home at Fontaine au Roi; the...
During President Yasser Arafat’s hospitalisation in France, just before his death, I travelled from Paris to Cairo to spend the end of Ramadan and the Eid holiday in an...
Incitement is a “one size fits all” accusation, constructed especially to frighten Palestinians who voice opposition to the tightening of Israeli policies that already suffocate the community. The Israeli...
President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN, which had been preceded by inflated propaganda claiming that it would be a “bombshell”, turned out to be no more than a...
An apple a day keeps the occupation away. That appears to be the message from a new Palestinian Authority TV commercial. The apple here is not the famous fruit...
‘Man shall not live on bread alone’ The Palestinian elections of 2006 displeased Western powers. In the aftermath of the ensuing economic boycott of Palestine, our president told us...
It is not the youth of Shufat this time! On my way to the Old City of Jerusalem from my neighbourhood of Shufat at the end of April, I...
Ali, 8, suffers from allergies which cause a frequent nasal discharge. Running out of tissues during class, he asked his classmates for some but the teacher scolded him. “You...
Sixty-seven years after the massive expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands, the scene in Palestine is grimmer than ever. We observe for example that following almost a...
Land Day commemorates the events of 30 March, 1976 when Palestinians from the Galilee to the Negev organised a massive strike to protest against the Israeli confiscation of land,...