WHO warns of unfolding mental health crisis in Gaza, urges urgent support
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the unfolding mental health crisis in Gaza, stressing the need for providing urgent support and services to the Palestinian people in the war-ravaged Strip.
In a Sunday post on X, the agency said over one million people currently require urgent support and services falling far short of demand.
"Since Oct 2023, WHO has trained over 1,000 health workers in psychological first aid, trauma and grief management, child and adolescent mental health, and care for survivors of gender-based violence," it added.
WHO reiterated its mounting efforts to address urgent needs and rebuild the health system, emphasizing that “expanding mental health services across all levels of care - from community to hospital - will be a central part of the response.”
It stressed the importance of establishing lasting peace to sustain any progress in improving health care, including mental health services.
“A permanent ceasefire must be secured,” WHO pointed out.
After more than two years of relentless bombardment that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, the Israeli regime bowed to international pressure and approved a US-brokered agreement to halt its genocidal war on Gaza and exchange prisoners with Palestinian resistance factions.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early on October 10 that the regime’s cabinet had approved a deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip.
Under the deal, the Israeli army is required to withdraw to the so-called “yellow line” within 24 hours, after which the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas will release the remaining living prisoners within 72 hours.
At least 67,806 Palestinians have been killed and 170,066 wounded, most of them women and children, since the Israeli regime launched the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The actual death toll is much higher as the remains of thousands of unaccounted Gazans are buried beneath the debris.
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