Dr Dardah Al-Shaer, professor of social psychology at Gaza University, told TNA that the Gaza Strip is now experiencing one of the largest collective psychological disasters in modern history. He explained that the effects of the war are no longer limited to the dead and wounded but have extended to the psychological structure of society as a whole, especially children.
“… There are about one million children in Gaza, meaning nearly all children in the Strip now need urgent psychological and social support due to repeated trauma from bombing, displacement, and loss of family members. This is a huge number that exceeds the capacity of any health system, let alone a collapsed one,” al-Mudalal said.”
… Al-Mudalal added that this war differs from previous wars because the trauma was not an event that ended, but a trauma that continues daily.
“In wars, trauma usually ends, and then the recovery phase begins, but in Gaza, the trauma continues every day; there is no safe place and no real stop to the bombing, and this deprives the brain of the chance to begin the recovery process. So we see severe psychological symptoms on a wide scale, especially among children,” he described.
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