22/7/2025–|Last update: 06:35 (Mecca time)
Doctors Without Borders said that the ongoing violence by the Israeli settlers and the army is still deep psychological effects on the Palestinians in West BankEspecially children.
The organization added – in a statement yesterday, Monday – that the permanent fear of the aggression and violence exercised by the settlers and the army affects “a huge form on the mental health of the Palestinians in the West Bank, especially on the residents of the southern countryside of the city HebronIn areas such as the traveler of Yatta. ”
She added that the daily threats of the Palestinians in these areas of forced transport and injury remain “constantly present as we have seen in recent weeks and reach death.”
The MSF is working to operate mobile clinics in the region, and stressed that the various security concerns and the escalation of settlers’ violence will significantly unite their activities.
“We are currently witnessing repeated demolitions of the homes by the Israeli forces that stormed villages in the traveler of Yatta repeatedly,” said Frederic Van Dongn, Director of Humanitarian Affairs in Hebron.
Van Dongn added that some villages “destroyed up to 85% of homes”, and considered that the practices and policies pursued by the Israeli government, aimed at including the West Bank “, directly affect the physical and psychological health of our patients.”
She also said that the attacks carried out by the settlers, often accompanied by the Israeli army, occur “almost daily and are increasing violent, which leads to more injuries and cases that require hospitalization.”
The same spokeswoman indicated that in recent weeks, the residents of Mesafir Yatta faced escalating attacks by Israeli settlers, as the residents describe almost daily incidents that include beating, firing livestock to sabotage agricultural lands, closing roads, demolishing homes, and permanent psychological pressure.
In May, the settlers stormed a side of the side of the traveler of Yatta, and left behind “wounded bodies, devastating crops and increasing fear that peace has become far -fetched”, and the organization recorded that children suffer from early psychological effects, as they are exposed to violence, intimidation and the presence of Israeli forces from an early age, which leads to “shocking symptoms such as nightmares, panic attacks and the inability to focus in the school”.