The Gaza Mental Health Foundation Inc (brochure) was formed in the USA in 2001 to help provide mental health services for the people of the Gaza Strip, especially the children who are its future. It raises funds for the work of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, which was established in 1990 by Dr. Eyad el-Sarraj to meet the mental health needs of people exposed on a daily basis to humiliation, injury, loss of freedom and the destruction of homes. It is difficult to imagine Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully together without the healing work of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (web sites www.gcmhp.org & www.gcmhp.net).

Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent provided by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Appeal: The Future of the Gaza Strip Has Never Been So Bleak

"Siege and Mental Health" Conference  Gaza City & Ramallah, Oct 26-28, 2008

 

 

GMH Foundation receives generous donation
Donation made in memory of donor's parents and grandparents, who lost their homes and livelihoods in the Holocaust.

Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
On September 15, 2009 a UN Fact Finding Mission led by the prominent South African justice Richard Goldstone released a 574-page report on Israel's war on Gaza. The report describes in often shocking detail the serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed by Israel during the conflict, some of which, the Mission states, amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity. (click here for text of the report)

Although the report also focused on actions taken by militias in Gaza and termed the firing of rockets at Israeli civilians a war crime, the US State Department has condemned it as one-sided and unfair to Israel. In reaching this conclusion, the US government ignored the fact that Israel had entirely refused to cooperate with the Mission and prevented it from entering Israel.

Click here to read Dr. Eyad el Sarraj's Open Letter to President Obama.

Gaza Under Siege  August 13, 2009
Video, produced by Jordan Flaherty and Lily Keber

No Safe Place
Report of the Independent Fact Finding Committee On Gaza, April 30 2009

Photos from Gaza  May, 2009
Tom Suarez

"Cockroach"  A brief account of the Erez Crossing, Israel, October 26, 2008
Tom Suarez

"Closed Zone" (animation)
March 4, 2009 -- Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement calls on the State of Israel to fully open Gaza's crossings

The Civil Society & Private Sector Initiative on Gaza’s Reconstruction and Development
February 23, 2009

High Profile U.S. Delegation Visits Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
February 19, 2009

The Destruction of Gaza
Nancy Murray, January 25, 2009

Gallery of photos of Gaza's child victims
The Guardian

When the guns die ...
Dr. Eyad Sarraj

Nancy Murray, interview with Dr. Elaine Hagopian, The Arabic Hour
VIDEO  or  just audio

Where has humanity gone? It’s gone from the Mideast
Luisa Morgantini, 12 January 2009

Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator
United Nations, 12 January 2009

Health Situation in the Gaza Strip
World Health Orghanization, 12 January 2009

A 14-year-old in Gaza has one question: Why?
Eyad el-Sarraj, The Boston Globe, January 11, 2009

Health Situation in Gaza  World Health Organization, 6 Jan, 2009

Doctor's Video report from Gaza  5 January 09

OCHA Report on Gaza Humanitarian Situation 4 Jan, 2009

Life and Death under the F16s
Dr. Eyad el-Sarraj, Gaza, December 31, 2008

Best way to a secure Israel is Justice for Palestine
Dr. Eyad el-Sarraj, Gaza, December 31, 2008

Gaza Mental Health 2009 Brochure

Israeli blockade 'forces Palestinians to search rubbish dumps for food'
The Observer, 21 Dec 2008

VIDEO: Gaza in Crisis - December, 2008
Sonja Karkar

International Human Rights Day
Dec 10, 2008 -- GCMHP call for international protection of Palestinian citizens

Gaza: Silence is not an option
Richard Falk  (Dec 9, 2008)

Letter on travelling from Gaza for medical treatment
Dr. Eyad Sarraj

Internationals Fail to Break the Siege, but GCMHP Conference Goes On
Nancy Murray  Read online or download MS Word file

Conference Statement   Read online or download MS Word file

Conference Media (news, photos, papers, documents)

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Nancy Murray  Read online or download MS Word file

Commemorating the Naksa -- Evoking the Nakba
Nancy Murray  See Contents and download PDF  MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies

 

The Free Gaza voyages

Relief boats have now broken Israel's siege of the Gaza strip three times, most recently on November 8. Eleven past and current members of European parliaments were among those on board, these being among 53 Parliamentarians who had recently been denied entrance into Gaza by Egypt at the Rafah checkpoint. See http://freegaza.org.
 

 
   

For more information
please
 contact Gaza Mental Health Foundation by Email

 

Gaza Mental Health
Foundation, Inc
P.O. Box 495
Boston, MA 02112

 

 

 

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