Medecins Sans Frontieres is providing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with mental health services alongside medical care.
Psychologists talk with parents who have trouble getting up and with children who wet their beds.
Recently, a group of some 20 schoolchildren in their early teens was in the Saja'iya neighborhood in the eastern part of Gaza. While hundreds of these children's friends have stopped believing in the purpose of this symbolic act and return home at the end of the school day, this local group continues to look eastward, to the Karni-Muntar crossing. The children from Saja'iya are well aware that the stones they throw, even if they use a slingshot, will just barely bounce off the post or the well-protected jeeps. The soldiers fire straight at them from an APC, the post or a jeep. The children know they may get injured or killed, that throwing a stone or two will not give them all enough time to hide, yet they continue to come.