Join us at Hertford East Train Station at 11am on Saturday 6th April 2024 to show your support for Palestinians at this difficult time.

Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) invites you to an informal meeting where we will share our news about conditions in Gaza that relate to our therapy team there. We will discuss future plans and respond to your questions.

Sunday 3rd March. 2024 @ 4:00 PM GMT (London Time)

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83563628366

Meeting ID: 835 6362 8366

This form of therapy focuses on the group rather than the individual; on action and movement rather than talk and analysis. It is used to build resilience in people who live with conflict or social disruption. The activities develop trust and encourage play. This is known as “psycho-social” therapy and it is increasingly used in poorer parts of the world which do not have expensive medicines or psychotherapy.

David Harrold, Chair of trustees PTC(UK), has worked in Gaza on projects related to this. He will introduce some of these methods in a workshop at Blyburgate Hall, Beccles, Suffolk NB34 9TF on Saturday 2nd March at 5pm. At 7pm he will talk about the work of Palestine Trauma Centre (UK).

Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) is a UK based charity that works to provide adults and children living within the Gaza strip with access to psychological support and mental health services.

Funds donated to our emergency appeal will be used to provide direct relief to the population of the Gaza strip, to support the reconstruction and restoration of our services within the Gaza strip or to provide staff training and remuneration to our team on the ground in Gaza.

Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) is a registered UK charity (1133560) with the Charities Commission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is registered with the Fundraising Regulator.

While the atrocities continue in Gaza, we have been invited to give talks about the situation on the ground and to tell the story of the members of our team who are trapped in the Gaza strip and who are living this nightmare on a daily basis.

Join us for an evening of listening, compassion and kindness to hear from a panel of local Palestinian speakers, including Palestine Trauma Centre (UK)’s Dr. Mohamed Altawil.

Entry is free for anyone who is interested in hearing more about what is happening to the innocent people of Gaza.

Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) has teamed up with a group of educators and media specialists to produce an online exhibition designed to educate people about Gaza.

The exhibition was designed and curated before the horrific events of 7th October 2023, and while the nature of the launch event has been overshadowed by the trauma inflicted upon Gaza, the message of the event which intends to portray Gaza as a place of colour, culture and contrast still remains.

Please join us at 5pm GMT on Saturday 4th November 2023 at our launch event where you will be introduced to the exhibition and given the opportunity to explore the virtual gallery in your own time during the session.

In light of recent events PTC (UK) invites you to join us in solidarity with our friends in Gaza, to hear about the ever changing situation on the ground and how it impact our work, our staff and the people whom we help each and every day.

Please join us and learn how you can help their cause.

Join us on zoom at 5pm GMT on Saturday 4th November.

View on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89892782266

Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) will be guest speakers at the next St. Albans Friends of Palestine event to be held on Thursday, 19th October.

The free, public event will be an opportunity to hear about the work of PTC (UK) and MAP as well as interact with Zaytoun and local craft stall creators who support relief work in Palestine.

The event begins at 7:30pm in the Fleetville Community Centre and is free to everyone.

PTC (UK) will be attending the St. Mary’s College, Belfast Palestine Day event on Thursday, 10th August.

The topic of Palestine Day 2023 is 75 Years of Nakba End Israeli Apartheid.

The event includes a Palestinian lunch and the Belfast premiere of the film Fadia’s Tree, a film by English film director Sarah Beddington which follows the story of a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon as she sets a challenge to find an ancient tree that stands as witness to her family's existence, guided only by inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon.

Join PTC (UK)’s David Harrold, along with other speakers for a day of discussion and debate on 75 Years of Nakba.

You are invited to join us for our first post-lockdown live meeting. It is an informal social gathering, which includes latest news about our projects, a reminder of our mission in Gaza and some thoughts about what we do next.

There will be light refreshments and, we hope, a first viewing of our online exhibition.

Bring family and friends. Please email admin@palestinetraumacentre.uk or text 07932 774237 to tell us you are coming and how many will be with you.

The event is free, but donations to cover hiring costs are welcome.

Directions

From the Galleria, just off the A1, drive up Bishops Rise. Turn left into The Downs just after Lark Rise and before the Gulf petrol station. Then turn right almost immediately into the Community Centre car park.

Our next Talk to Gaza will be hosted jointly by us and Jews 4 Palestine – Ireland. It compares two historically important experiences of trauma. The discussion should be enlightening.

Join us to explore the differing generational traumas caused by the Shoah and Nabka and the continuing trauma visited by Israel on Palestinian adults and children.

To register and gain access to the Zoom link, please register as shown on the flyer.

Download: Event Flyer (PDF, 390KB)

Speakers

Bríd Keenan
Co-Director- Ireland Somatic Experiencing/Gestalt Centre Belfast
Rami Khader
Director of the Rehabilitation Programme at East Jerusalem YMCA
Mohamed Altawil
Projects Manager, Palestine Trauma Centre UK

Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) would like to invite you to our Ramadan event on Saturday, 15th of April at 7pm (London Time) 6:00 PM (Al-Quds Time), 24 of Ramadan via Zoom.

Muslims and non-Muslims are welcome.

Programme

This event includes:

• Reciting of the Quran by Hafiz

• Speakers and Presentations by guests

• Short Films

• Poetry reading

• Ibtihal-Song

• Dua

• Fundraising activities for PTC (UK)

Please help us to support the traumatised-needy families and their children in Gaza who suffer hardship and 17 years under siege.

To Join

Please use the following open Zoom meeting link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89013050461

Or enter Meeting ID: 890 1305 0461

Making Donations

We accept donations as follows:

1. Zakat Fitir

2. Zakat Mal

3. Sadaqa

4. General donation

For more information on donating to PTC (UK) please visit our donations page.

This event will be an opportunity for the public to meet the Palestine Trauma Centre UK team. The event will give you the opportunity to hear about our achievements over the past year as well as to put questions to the trustees about our current activities and plans for 2023.

The meeting will be held on Zoom commencing 4pm. Please try and arrive 5 minutes ahead of time if possible.

“Talk to Gaza” returns with a webinar devoted to Palestinian thoughts about Gaza’s future.

Our webinar discussion will introduce the recently published Light in Gaza Writings Born of Fire, edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze.

Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving and wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. It constitutes a collective effort to organize and centre Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle.

As political discourse shifts toward futurism as a means of reimagining a better way of living, beyond the violence and limitations of colonialism, Light in Gaza is an urgent and powerful intervention into an important political moment.

Jennifer Bing and some of the Palestinian contributors join our Zoom discussion on Saturday, 17th December 2022.

Event Replay

Didn’t catch the live event? Watch the full event back here on Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) using the player below.

Light in Gaza   Writings Born of Fire

Edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

Light in Gaza is a moving and wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. It constitutes a collective effort to organize and centre Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle.

Find out more & order your copy: HaymarketBooks.org

Jennifer Bing and some of the Palestinian contributors join our discussion on 17th December.

A Zoom link will be made available for participants nearer the time.

Download: Event Poster (PDF)

David Harrold, Chair of PTC(UK) will lead discussion on how support networks alleviate trauma. A presentation on PTC(UK)’s therapy project in Gaza and its context will show how people live under a violent siege and deprivation. David has visited Gaza three times and has regular contact with the therapy team there.

View: Event Poster (486 KB)

We would like to invite you to our event ‘Talk to Gaza in Ramadan’ on Saturday 23 of April 2022 at (3pm London Time) , (5pm Palestine Time) via Zoom. Muslims and non-Muslims are welcome.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87690865898

 The programme  includes: ‘Reciting Quran by Hafiz, Presentations, Speakers from Palestine and UK, Short Films, Poem, Nasheed, Ibtihal-Song, Dua’.

 Please help us to support the traumatised-needy families and their children in Gaza who suffer hardship and 16 years under siege.

We accept donations as follows:

1. Zakat Fitir

2. Zakat Mal

3. Sadaqa

4. General donation.

https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk/donate

Talk by Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) on Mental Health and Trauma Care in a Conflict Situation.

Cost: Free

Booking Details: Please contact: mandyandbob@googlemail.com to reserve your place.