Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza, the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and Lebanon - July 18, 2026

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Peer reviewed journal articles on Palestine

Publications from the past two weeks include:

Annihilated Families and the Politics of Mass Graves: Testimonies of Gazan Women After the Loss of Entire Kin Networks

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Interviews with 30 displaced Gazan women (ages 19-60) living in Rafah, explored how extreme violence is experienced and interpreted by women who survived the destruction of their entire kin networks. "Findings indicate that trauma in Gaza is cumulative, relational, and spatially embedded, as the destruction of homes and neighborhoods collapses kinship structures, social roles, and intergenerational continuity....Clinical and psychosocial responses must therefore move beyond individual symptom frameworks and incorporate relational, community‑based, and justice‑oriented approaches that address disrupted mourning, survivor guilt, and the loss of social continuity."

Additional articles can be found in the following collections:

Mental and behavioral health

Hospitals, health care, and health infrastructure

Maternal and child health

Public health and medical workforce

Injury and violence

Institutional silence, repression, and complicity

Food and nutrition

Infectious and communicable disease

Environmental health

Chronic disease

Gender and women's health

Disability

Oral health

You can still access our article summaries for articles published between April 2025 – March 2026 here.

We will be taking a personal and summer break, returning with the urgent update on August 8, 2026. Thank you for your patience.