Palestinian mental health crisis: effects of long-term war

Nabila Hamada gave birth to twin boys in Gaza during the early stages of the conflict, in a hospital overwhelmed with the smell of death and crowded with displaced individuals.

When the hospital came under threat from Israeli forces, she and her husband escaped with just one of the infants, as medical personnel deemed the other too fragile to move.

Nabila Hamada, a mother who lost one of her new-born twins in the war said, “I never…