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15 November

gaza trauma surgeonsNO CONFERENCE VISAS TO PALESTINIAN TRAUMA EXPERTS
On this day in 2015, an international conference at Kingston University on trauma in war zones concluded. Britain had refused visas to medical experts from Gaza, four of whom had been due to give presentations. Palestinian medical staff are leading experts in that field. Israel denies medical staff freedom of movement in Palestine; the UK prevents trauma surgeons from sharing life-saving knowledge while facilitating free movement for arms dealers to enable the atrocities medical staff strive to deal with.

 

 

لا تأشيرات مؤتمر لخبراء الامراض النفسية الفلسطينيين

15 نوفمبر

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2015 ، اختتم مؤتمر دولي في جامعة كينجستون حول الصدمات (تروما )(الفاجعة) في مناطق الحرب. ورفضت بريطانيا منح التأشيرات لخبراء طبيين من غزة وكان من المقرر أن يقدم أربعة منهم عروضا لابحاثهم في فاجعة الحروب. الطاقم الطبي الفلسطيني من الخبراء الرائدين في هذا المجال. تحرم إسرائيل الطاقم الطبي الفسطيني من حرية الحركة في فلسطين. تمنع المملكة المتحدة أخصائيي الصدمات من مشاركة المعرفة المنقذة للحياة وتسهل الحركة الحرة لتجار السلاح وتترك الطاقم الطبي للتعامل مع فظائع اسلحتهم المدمرة

The UK Government maintained its arms sales to the Israeli regime, generating huge profits for arms companies that contribute to Tory Party funds, while banning medical experts from attending a UK conference.

Rethinking trauma and resilience in the context of political violence: new directions in research and practice
Saturday 14 November – Sunday 15 November 2015
Venue: Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE

This conference brings together diverse groups of mental health workers, social workers and academics to evaluate mental health practices in a war zone and question the traditional concept of trauma. It will examine the effectiveness of Western-derived interventions for ongoing trauma and discuss the viability of a PTSD diagnosis (including DSM & ICD) for civil conflict situations.

The victims of war are not ‘ill’. They react normally to abnormal conditions. Understanding those conditions and the ways in which they can be resisted offers new insights into therapeutic processes. This conference will explore community-based interventions, physical approaches to mental health, and trauma relief that focuses on children and adults.

UK decision to refuse Gaza medical experts from joining Kingston University conference condemned by campaigners
Three doctors and a nurse who work for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, and were due to give presentations at the conference taking place this weekend, have had their visa requests refused by British authorities. In addition to the four mental health specialists refused entry, Dr Nahida Al-Arja, a psychologist from Bethlehem University, has had her visa application rejected.

 A letter by the UK Palestine Mental Health Network, co-organisers of the conference, published in the Independent, says: “It is beyond our comprehension how such an interference with intellectual and clinical discussion on such an important topic could be justified. This is a measure that further isolates clinicians from Gaza, already struggling under the impact of military assaults and siege.”

Some months before the UK banned Gaza experts in the treatment of war-induced trauma from attending the Kingston conference, Robert Tait had reported for the Telegraph:"More than 370,000 children have been left shell-shocked by last year’s Israeli attack on Gaza"

Sayed Bakr lived through a deadly missile bombardment in the darkest days of the war in Gaza.
But posing underneath a portrait of his closest brother, Mohammed, who he lost in that attack, proved too much. After volunteering to stand with the picture, the 12-year-old broke down and called for his mother.

Sayed and his friends were the target of one of the most harrowing episodes of last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. While playing football on the beach, they came under fire from an Israeli pilot who apparently mistook them for militants.
Four boys from the Bakr family died in the missile strike and four were injured. In the immediate aftermath, Sayed was left paralysed with terror, unable to speak, writhing hysterically against a wall.

Today, more than six months later, he is one of hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza who need treatment for shell-shock.

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