“We will die. All of us. Hopefully soon enough to stop the suffering that we are living through every single second.”

Those words were sent in a text recently by a physician
working for Doctors Without Borders in the southern Gaza Strip. It is far from an uncommon feeling shared by those struggling to survive and care for one another in Gaza these days. What would we call this feeling from the perspective of Western medicine? Suicidal ideation? Depression? Post-traumatic stress disorder? Whatever it is, we are taught that such thoughts are abnormal and require medical intervention. When the bombing finally stops, the rebuilding of Gaza’s homes, schools, hospitals and essential infrastructure will begin — Gazan's will also begin processing trauma many people on Earth cannot understand: the prospect of starving to death; waking up at a hospital and finding out you are one of the last surviving members of your family; watching a child killed by an airstrike; being pulled from rubble; displacement for the second, fifth or 10th time.

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