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Palestinian Territories

Palestinian Territories

International Activity Report, 2009 The conflict that followed the rise to power of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in June 2007 and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict have resulted in many deaths and injuries. The Palestinian people have been badly affected physically and mentally, but not enough post-operative services such as physiotherapy and psychological care is available. MSF is working to remedy this while trying to adapt its operations to the volatile situation in the Palestinian Territories.   In June 2007, internal clashes within the Gaza Strip divided the Palestinian Authority into the Fatah government based in Ramallah and the Hamas government in Gaza. Internal clashes persist, continuing to claim victims....
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Interview with MSF psychologist working in Hebron, OPT

13 April 2012
MSF runs a psycho-medico-social program in Nablus, West Bank.
MSF runs a psycho-medico-social program in Nablus, West Bank.
Manuel Francisco Morantes, a clinical psychologist from Colombia, has been working during the last 9 months in the MSF project in Hebron providing mental health support to Palestinian families affected by the conflict in the region. In this interview he talks about the consequences of violence on the mental health of the people he treats and explains how MSF teams respond to the needs for psychosocial support.      MSF runs a psycho-medico-social program in Nablus, West Bank. Photo: Chris Huby You have been working for MSF in Hebron for more than 9 months now. What are the main problems faced by the people you treat? “People living in the district of Hebron and especially in old...
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Occupied Palestinian Territories – Nablus: “acts of violence are recurrent and increasing”

13 April 2012
West Bank: MSF project coordinator in Nablus, Sarah Château
MSF project coordinator in Nablus, Sarah Château
    MSF project coordinator in Nablus, Sarah Château. Photo: Chris Huby     "My name is Sarah Château. I am 30 years old. I was part of an evaluation mission to Kosovo, spent three years as the coordinator of psycho-social programs in the Philippines and have three years' experience working on migration and development in Morocco. I have been working in the humanitarian aid and development sectors since 2005, when I finished my studies. On my first MSF mission, I served as project coordinator in Nablus, in the West Bank, from July 2011 – January 2012.  I hold that same position today.   MSF has been working in Nablus since 2004...
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West Bank: MSF helps victims of violence

13 April 2012
Since 2004, MSF runs a psycho-medico-social program in Nablus, West Bank.
Since 2004, MSF runs a psycho-medico-social program in Nablus, West Bank.
Increased violence towards Palestinians has been witnessed by Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff across the West Bank in recent months. In the West Bank, the conflict affects both Israelis and Palestinians. Peaks of violence on both sides are recurrent and have serious consequences for their victims. Nablus, Qalqilya and Hebron districts, where MSF runs a psycho-medico-social programme, have seen hostilities ranging from continuous harassment and threats to direct attacks by settlers on Palestinian villages. In Qalqiya district, the situation between settlers and Palestinians is particularly violent. MSF volunteers have observed physical assaults, harassment, obstructed access to...
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Gaza: Chronic shortages of drugs and medical supplies

17 November 2011
medicines from MSF
Palestinian woman and children provided with medicines from MSF
Health facilities in the Gaza Strip face a serious shortage of drugs and medical supplies. In late September, 36% of essential drugs were lacking. While MSF makes regular donations, no aid actor can meet the full range of needs. Palestinian woman and children provided with medicines from MSF. Photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi The Israeli embargo of the Gaza Strip, which began in 2007, together with years of financial crisis within the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the chronic lack of cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and Gaza authorities, have caused harm and threaten Gaza's health system and its patients.   Last spring, drug companies stopped supplying the Palestinian Authority....
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Palestinian Territories - Nablus: "Constant and unpredictable violence"

01 October 2010
Our teams tell us that for a year now the source of tension in Nablus (in the West Bank) has changed. Violence is now increasingly due to the forced cohabitation of Palestinian villages and their neighbouring Israeli settlements. Frédéric Ulmann was project coordinator. Here he comments on the three months he spend in Nablus, the way the situation has developed, and the needs to be met by MSF.   What is the current problem scenario in Nablus? Is it sufficient to justify the actions undertaken by MSF?   For around a year now the cause of violence in Nablus has been different. There are now fewer deaths and injuries caused by Israeli-Palestinian clashes, or more specifically clashes with the Israeli army (...
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No health without mental health

22 February 2011
No health without mental health
No health without mental health
Squeezed between the airport and Beirut’s southern suburbs, Burj el-Barajneh camp is the capital’s most densely populated area, home to some 18,000 people living in a space of just one square kilometre. Many of the camp’s residents have been deeply affected by successive wars and conflict; their prospects for the future are bleak; employment is hard to come by; and most suffer difficult living conditions and a precarious socio-economic situation. Since the end of 2008, MSF has been running a mental health programme for the most vulnerable Palestinian and Lebanese people in and around Burj el-Barajneh camp in Lebanon. Over the past two years, more than 1,000 people have been treated in the programme, which is based...
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