Diary From Gaza

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TopicSocial Sciences

AuthorKatrin Glatz Brubakk

PublisherWestend

A child psychologist’s report on loss, trauma and hope

Katrin Glatz Brubakk worked for a month in autumn 2024 as a child psychologist at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Her diary from that time shows the psychological impact of war on people, especially children. What unimaginable stress do they live under? What exis- tential worries do they have? What illnesses and consequences will they carry with them for the rest of their lives? Katrin Glatz Brubakk also shows how much people want to help each other – especially in maintaining hope.

“I heard the sound of war. Not in the form of bomb explosions, but as the painful cries of traumatised children. Cries so piercing that they embody all the pain of Gaza.”