I can’t find words for. When trying to mind, one of the drawings I could see when I was in the strip last December. The little artist does not get anything out of line, uses the colors very well and explains, even better, the horror of the war.
Drawing is one of the activities carried out by our mental health team. It allows the little ones to outsource their thoughts and fears. I admire professionals who are dedicated to mental health, and in particular to Palestinian workers who work in Gaza and the West Bank. Being exposed to the same violence as the rest of the population, feeling the same fear as the person in front of them, do their job with dedication and affection.
In my recent visit to Gaza, where I could see first -hand the activities of doctors without borders (MSF) in the strip, I was especially impressed by the testimony of the mental health team. It is such a constant dehumanization suffered by the population, that patients of all ages, repeat again and again phrases like this: “I am a person, I am a human being. He had plans, dreams, had a life. I am not a number. ”
A gazatí companion, photographer and journalist, who works in MSF, says that he desperately seeks in his photographs a little light here and there, which is thirsty for colors and life.
His way of maintaining sanity in the midst of war is desperately looking with his camera some hope in the midst of ruins and devastation. She feels that photographing people in these circumstances is to release them a bit from the burden that represents to carry so many personal stories, stories of loss, farewells and survival.
This war, like so many others, has charged thousands of lives and left the completely devastated health system. But in Gaza, destruction has been such that the only thing that is practically standing is the hope of people and the desire to survive. These days, the population like who takes a breath of air after having endured breathing for too much time.
they are going to try to bury their dead and in the best stage, they will continue to live under plastics and tents for many years, without employment, homeless, without the social fabric that sustained life.
The attacks on health structures are repeated in the West Bank with the same impunity that have happened in Gaza and health personnel are being a direct victim of these incursions
Paula Gil, president of doctors without borders Spain
After more than 15 months, the people who were kidnapped on October 7, those who have survived, and hundreds prisoners and prisoners will be released to start over. But no one escapes that the agreements on which this truce is sustained are extremely fragile.
As Gaza’s border stalls increases the flow of humanitarian aid trucks, blood spill extends in the West Bank.
In these occupied areas, violence against the population has not ceased a single day. , in the month of January, the Israeli forces have killed 30 people and injured dozens and paramedic staff are not allowed to access the attacked areas to collect the injured.
The attacks on health structures are repeated in the West Bank with the same impunity that have happened in Gaza and health personnel are being a direct victim of these incursions.
In the last 15 months, being a professional of medicine, nursing, being paramedic has become Gaza and the West Bank, almost a crime, or thus insist on seeing it those who do not understand anything about medicine, humanity and law International Humanitarian. From October 8, 2023 until mid -September of last year, 512 attacks on health structures and more than 500 health structures were counted only in Gaza.
We know that there are more than 12,000 people waiting They have to survive. Everything is to be done, you have to rebuild a whole world and an eventual return of the bombings to Gaza would be the worst possible news for a devastated, exhausted and trapped society.
To those who question what I say I invite you to look closely at the drawing that illustrates this text because before such testimony the words are left over.
