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Months after Gaza ceasefire, psychological scars remain
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Months after Gaza ceasefire, psychological scars remain
By Isla Binnie
LONDON (AlertNet) - Civilians in Gaza still struggle to sleep, eat
and go to school, two months after the week of rocket fire and air strikes that
hit the Palestinian territory late last year, aid agencies and health workers
say.
The number of people being treated for psychological trauma and
post-traumatic stress disorder doubled after the conflict which killed 170
Palestinians and six Israelis in November, according to the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
The most recent crisis in a dispute which has remained unresolved
since the Islamist group Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, sowed lasting
fear among children in particular, according to Unicef.
Three-year-old Mohammed Saleh has been clinging to his parents
since the November bombardment, becoming catatonic at night if he hears any
sounds, his father says.
"He's screaming, screaming, screaming and his body becomes as hard
as wood," Mohammed's father said, in quotes provided to AlertNet by UNRWA.
"He's bedwetting, he covers his ears, he flinches whenever he hears
a door bang, he cannot sleep for more than a full hour," said the boy's father,
who lives in Jabalia in northern Gaza. "During the war he was very attached to
me and his mother, now he's holding on to us constantly."
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