Psychologist from the NGO Doctors Without Borders Ionara Rabelo assesses that the impact of bombings on children is “devastating.”
A CNN Radio she highlighted that at this time of concern about the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, everything a child needs, in addition to security, is routine.
“Seeing rubble, in addition to having reality as a whole turned inside out, means that they are unable to structure themselves in the face of this scenario,” he said.
According to her, children “need security, a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, with access to food, water and to have their parents alive.”
For the psychologist, “without the immediate existence of safe spaces we will have a catastrophe with an impact on mental health that is impossible to measure.”
Among the consequences for those affected by the war, Ionara lists depression, anxiety, difficulty sleeping and eating.
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“In the long term, it can affect learning, have changes in speech, exacerbated fear, greater irritability,” he said.
MSF has been in Gaza since 1989, with 320 professionals working and part of them moved to the south of the region, even so “we have teams working inside bombed hospitals.”
Ionara reinforced that Doctors Without Borders offers help in all spaces, to everyone involved in the conflict.
*Produced by Isabel Campos
Source: CNN Brasil
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