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Re: Gaza statement - my final update til Monday

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Shreena Ghelani <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:31:00 +0000

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Has this been published officially online anywhere? I'm looking for a link to share on social media?

Thanks

Shreena

Shreena Ghelani
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
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From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Kaanan Butor-Bhavsar [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 July 2014 11:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Gaza statement - my final update til Monday

Dear All,

Thank you Mark and others for making this happen. Apologies that I missed the deadline, but I'd be grateful if I could be added to future mailings regarding this issue.

Kind regards,
Kaanan Butor-Bhavsar
Clinical Psychologist

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:29:37 -0400
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Gaza statement - my final update til Monday
To: [log in to unmask]

Hi All,

Here is the final letter, with over 80 signatories!  Thanks to everyone and especially to Mark for putting this together.

If you haven't had a chance already, if you could quickly double check your name/title and let me know if I need to change, although I will start sending it out to publications very shortly...

That said, if there are more who would like to add their names, feel free to keep it coming and we may be able to add more names to any mailings that are still to be sent out at later point.

Tamsin



Statement of support and solidarity with the people of Gaza.

As Community and Community-Orientated Psychologists in the UK we again extend our support for and solidarity to the people of Gaza. We are calling upon the British government and the British people to take all feasible steps, beginning with immediate boycotts, disinvestments and sanctions against the state of Israel, to oblige Israel's political administration to: abide by international law; dismantle its apartheid regime spanning both the occupied territories and Israel; immediately and unconditionally end its assault on and siege of Gaza; end the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including its illegal settlements; abandon all claims to possess or control territory beyond its 1967 borders; and commit to pursuing a long-lasting, just peace.

We condemn all attacks on civilians, including the rocket retaliation from Gaza, noting that combatants have an obligation to protect civilians under international law.  However we draw attention to the disproportionality of Israel's attacks on Gaza, which includes the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children by the armed forces of a supposedly democratic State whose citizens they still are (since only limited autonomy has been granted to the Palestine Authority). We are concerned by reports from doctors that DIME munitions are again in use which cause extremely destructive damage to the bodies of those near the blast.  The Israeli military deliberately targets hospitals, civilian shelters and prevents medical aid reaching the injured and medical supplies and equipment from entering the Gaza Strip and destroys Gaza's infrastructure of roads, water supplies, sanitation, food production, food distribution, food security, electricity, social services, education services, health services, law and order, housing, environmental services, and broader social support structures.  We particularly note that during armed conflict, international humanitarian law requires that health care facilities, ambulances, medical personnel and the wounded and sick are all afforded specific protection.

As psychologists we also draw attention to the impact of this and other attacks on Palestinians on the psychological and social health and well-being of all sections of the population, particularly children, the elderly and those with additional vulnerabilities.  UNRWA has indicated very high and rising levels of severe psychological trauma, especially among children. The extreme constraints placed on the Palestinian health services, UNRWA and the various NGOs and civil society organisations can only make this situation far worse, despite the admirable and inspiring capacity of the Palestinian people to maintain and celebrate their cultural traditions.

We do note that many Israeli citizens (at home and worldwide) are opposed to the policies and resultant violence of their government.  Moreover, the situation is also detrimental to the psychological well-being of Israeli citizens, who are living in a context where threat of 'the other' is used to instil fear and legitimise such abhorrent action.

The massacre of civilians in Gaza is the latest, terrorist phase of a war that successive governments of Israel (supported by the USA and Britain) have been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years, since Britain's botched abandonment of its mandate triggered the Palestinian Nakba of 1948. The goal of this war has never changed: to use overwhelming military power to eradicate the Palestinians as a political force capable of resisting Israel's ongoing appropriation of Palestinian land and resources. CPUK believes that for the sake of justice and global peace, the Israeli State must not be allowed to achieve this. Our belief in the right of the Palestinians to democratic self-determination, and to resist military aggression and colonial occupation means we stand with the people of Palestine, whether in Gaza, the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem or the pre-1967 boundaries of the State of Israel in their struggle against that racist, colonial State and its government.

Additional notes
For UNWRA statement on post-conflict psychological trauma see http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/serious-upsurge-post-conflict-trauma-gaza-says-un

The blockade means a severe shortage of medicines and other vital supplies.  Before the current attack the Gaza health services were already suffering from an acute shortage of fuel and supplies, with 54 percent of medical disposables and 28 percent of essential drugs at zero stock.  Now some hospitals are reporting that they do not have sutures, materials to treat bone injuries, or enough reactive agents to perform routine blood tests.  On 15 July 41 organizations warned of an extremely severe Palestinian health sector crisis, with, in Gaza's hospitals the cessation of most primary services and women's health services.

80% of Gaza's population are refugees or their descendants.

The Gaza population of 1.7 Million is confined in a small area, no bigger than the Isle of Wight.  There is no escape from the missiles and naval bombardment, nor the frequent army incursions.  There is clear evidence (for example BBC Radio 4 reports, 17 July) that Israel's claim to warn civilians of missile attacks is meaningless.  Unlike Israel, the Palestinians do not have air raid shelters.

Primary Source: Medical Aid for Palestinians http://www.map-uk.org/news/41-organizations-warn-of-palestinian-health-sector-crisis.aspx

Signatories

1.          Professor Mark Burton
2.          Dr Steve Melluish
3.          Dr Cathy Amor
4.          Professor Jacqueline Akhurst
5.          Dr Chris Pawson
6.          Aisling Kelly
7.          Dr Joe Judge
8.          Dr Laura Jobson
9.          Christine Ward
10.     Tom Wengraf
11.     Dr Laara Jupp
12.     Professor Carolyn Kagan
13.     Teresa Nevard
14.     Dr Alia Ul-Hassan
15.     Jade Weston
16.     Dr Sally Zlotowitz
17.     Jacqui Lovell
18.     Professor Kerry Chamberlain (New Zealand)
19.     Dr Carl Walker
20.     Dr John Cromby
21.     Dr Nimisha Patel
22.     Dr Penny Priest
23.     Helen Beckwith
24.     Lucy Hawkes
25.     Dr Lianne Hovell
26.     Scott Bartle
27.     Sam Farley
28.     Dr Donna Oxley
29.     Dr Peter Branney
30.     Dr Nigel Hunt
31.     Dr Aneta D. Tunariu
32.     Dr Argyris Argyriadis (Greece)
33.     Majid Hussain
34.     Dr Kasper Andreas Kristensen (Denmark)
35.     Dr Tria Moore
36.     Dr Paula Corcoran
37.     Liz Cunningham
38.     Emma-Louise Aveling
39.     Kathryn Cooper
40.     Stephen Thorpe
41.     Masuma Rahim
42.     Gareth Morgan
43.     Dr Mirsad Serdarevic (USA)
44.     Dr Maxine Woolhouse
45.     Dr. Lisa Thorne
46.     Tamsin Curno
47.     Eleanor Shoultz
48.     Dr Andrew Hart
49.     Amna Abdulatif
50.     Dr Jane Callaghan
51.     Julie Bird
52.     Professor Ashraf Kagee (South Africa)
53.     Corinne Fortier (France)
54.     Nancy Flores (New Zealand)
55.     Dr. Dora Whittuck
56.     Lynere Wilson (New Zealand)
57.    Dr Bruce MZ Cohen (New Zealand)
58.    Dr Clare Dixon
59.     Dr. Nicholas Wood
60.     Dr Sarah Blackshaw
61.     Dr Sharen Hayre
62.     Dr Oliver Pugh
63.     Jenny Stuart
64.     Dr Eleni Hatzidimitriadou
65.     Dr Ruth Butterworth
66.     Dr Anna Daiches
67.     Dr Elizabeth Freeman
68.     Dr Deborah Chinn
69.     Dr Abdullah Mia
70.     Dr. Katy Day
71.     Madaleine Rowlinson
72.     Dr Glenn Williams
73.     Daniela Fernandez Catherall
74.     Tim Siggs
75.     Dr Julie Vane
76.     Dr Carl Harris
77.     Dr Sue Roffey (Australia)
78.     Dr Jo Hadfield
79.     Emma Ridley
80.     Stacy Earl
81.     Dr Aayesha Mulla
82.     Dr Sarah Keenan









-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Burton <[log in to unmask]>
To: COMMUNITYPSYCHUK <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 1:55 pm
Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Gaza statement - my final update til Monday

Just to let you know we now have more than 70 signatories to the statement.

Tamsin Curno has kindly offered to complete the work and send it to the press etc.

She'll post back to the list with the final product.

I've configured my emails with Gaza or GAZA in the title to go directly to her so everything should be working fine.

Again thanks everyone for your solidarity.

Maybe it will help make a difference.

Mark


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