We are clinicians
Our job is to heal
Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) has found itself caught in the middle of a conflict that we did not invite and that our patients - the children of Gaza - have done nothing to deserve.
Our clinic, our home
On the 9th October 2023, an explosion hit a building adjacent to the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) clinic in Nuseirat, a registered medical clinic and charity that provides free access to psychological and trauma support specialists for the children and citizens of Gaza.
The explosion demolished neighbouring buildings, blowing out all of the clinic windows and causing the roof and walls to collapse, leaving the building in an unstable and unusable state.
We urgently need your help in raising the funds to allow us to open a new clinic and to begin the difficult task of healing the traumas of this ongoing conflict.
We are going to have to rebuild. A new clinic, a new base of operations and if we are to help the Children of Gaza overcome these events. We are going to need to return bigger than ever before.
Our staff are part of this nightmare
With intermittent contact, Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) has been unable to make contact with members of our team for periods of hours and days at a time. During these impossible moments of silence, we have waited for news that we wish had never come.
15th October | Family of Mohammed Altawil
Core Psychotherapist, PTC (UK)
“The houses of my cousins along with the head of the Altawil family. My wife’s aunts, and her aunts’ children, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, and their grandchildren, whole families were all in one building block, which bombed.
Most the people in those houses came as refugees from the North of Gaza to seek a safer place. They are all dead now, some of the dead bodies are even unrecognisable and the one or two that survived are so severely injured.
More than 30 from our family and 100 people in total one go.”
Image © Al Jazeera 2023
3rd November | Jabir Thabet
Team Co-ordinator for Days of Joy, PTC (Gaza)
Jabir and his family had to leave their flat in this building after it was targeted and destroyed in the afternoon of 3rd November.
Our team is still helping
Even in the rubble of their own homes
PTC (Gaza) staff distributing food parcels on the morning of 3rd November 2023 to families whose homes have been destroyed in Nusierat Refugee Camp in the Middle Zone of the Gaza Strip. Many of our staff have lost loved ones as well as having been forced from their homes by the chaos.
The team at Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) now need your help to rebuild.
The children of Gaza need us now more than they ever have and we have lost our home.
Our mission is to save lives, help with trauma and to provide positive influence in a way that steer the Children of Gaza away from a path that might lead to radicalisation.
Can you help us to rebuild?