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Examining the nexus between housing conditions and health outcomes in Palestinian society: a mixed-method investigation
Background
Palestinian health conditions are exacerbated by high housing density, overcrowding, moisture issues, poor air circulation, poverty, limited health services, and housing insecurity, leading to chronic illnesses and mental health challenges. This study aims to explore the intricate connection between housing conditions and health outcomes, particularly focusing on the psychological, mental, and physical well-being of Palestinians.
Methods
The study employs a mixed-method approach, combining quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews. A structured questionnaire, developed based on expert discussions and previous research, assesses health indicators across the three domains. Descriptive statistics and Stepwise Multiple Regression techniques are used for data analysis. Additionally, ten structured interviews are conducted to provide qualitative insights into the detrimental impacts of housing conditions on health.
Results
The quantitative analysis reveals significant associations between housing characteristics and health outcomes. Participants residing in smaller households, with higher family incomes, and in private homes report better health across all domains. Urban residents generally exhibit better health outcomes compared to rural or refugee camp dwellers, highlighting disparities in resource accessibility. Moreover, stability in residential environments positively correlates with overall well-being. Qualitative findings underscore the negative impact of cramped living conditions, poor building supplies, and military occupation/ conflict on mental and physical health.
Conclusion
The study emphasizes the interconnectedness of socio-demographic factors with health outcomes among Palestinians. It highlights the crucial role of family dynamics, socioeconomic status, housing type, residential environment, and the political situation—particularly its impact on housing security and stress levels—in determining physical, mental, and psychological well-being. Addressing structural inequalities and promoting equitable access to resources and opportunities are essential steps towards improving health outcomes in Palestinian society. The study’s findings can inform policy development for Palestinians, addressing structural inequalities and improving healthcare, housing affordability, and socioeconomic opportunities, with future research utilizing longitudinal designs and cross-cultural comparisons.
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Refugees of the revolution : experiences of Palestinian exile
Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their \"right of return.\" Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with \"the catastrophe\" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four generations—as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tremendous cost for refugees themselves, overlooking their individual memories and aspirations and obscuring their collective culture in exile.
Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Challenging common assumptions about Palestinian identity and nationalist politics, Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and plan––pragmatically and speculatively—for the future. She gives unprecedented attention to credit associations, debt relations, electricity bartering, emigration networks, and NGO provisions, arguing that a distinct Palestinian identity is being forged in the crucible of local pressures.
What would it mean for the generations born in exile to return to a place they never left? Allan addresses this question by rethinking the relationship between home and homeland. In so doing, she reveals how refugees are themselves pushing back against identities rooted in a purely nationalist discourse. This groundbreaking book offers a richly nuanced account of Palestinian exile, and presents new possibilities for the future of the community.
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Gender-based violence experiences among Palestinian women during the COVID-19 pandemic: mental health professionals’ perceptions and concerns
Background
In a geopolitically at-risk environment, such as Palestine, gender-based violence (GBV) is still a crucial problem rooted in discriminatory laws and traditional habits exacerbated by the ongoing Israeli military occupation. Moreover, the lack of updated data makes it difficult to grasp the magnitude of the phenomenon entirely; the purpose of the current study was to explore mental health professionals’ perceptions and concerns on GBV among Palestinian women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods
Participants in the study were 30 Mental Health Professionals (MHP) selected using convenience and snowball sampling techniques from among MHP in northern West Bank, Palestine.
Results
A thematic content analysis revealed seven main themes of GBV during the pandemic. Palestinian MHP reported that the increased number of GBV cases among women during the COVID-19, quarantine, physical distancing measures, and closure of non-essential services significantly heightened the risks of GBV among Palestinian women. Moreover, Palestinian women involved with or married to older men or married at a very young age were at risk of GBV more than others. Results of qualitative analysis also showed that Israeli occupation and the political violence characterizing the area for decades (including restriction of movement, house demolitions, separation of family members, etc.) have also exacerbated and increased GBV in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Conclusions
Improving intervention skills and supervision services among Palestinian MHP to help women who face GBV is recommended. Moreover, additional research should be conducted to explore the risk and potential factors of GBV, agency, and coping strategies to deal with GBV.
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Voices from the camps
As debate continues about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its root causes simmer, Palestinian refugees have become increasingly invisible. Voices from the Camps is about their humanity. This sociological study explores refugee camps in Jordan, where refugees share their plight and narrative of the Nakbeh (Catastrophe) of 1948. They also share their pain, conflicting identities, and aspirations. This book conveys the humanity of the poor, stateless, and invisible, by examining the impacts of displacement, dispossession, and refugee status upon refugees and their descendents as they struggle for survival both as individuals and as a community. This book does not propose solutions; rather, it highlights the human side of the Palestinian trauma and the urgent need for a just solution.
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Protection amid chaos
How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses on Palestinians living in seven refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees, legal title documents, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives the author traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources to shed light on how communities thrive in challenging political economic spaces. Initially, Palestinians deployed bits and pieces of their pre-refugee life to craft property rights that met the challenges of living in refugee camps. Later, as the camps increased in complexity with expanding markets and new outsiders entering the political fray, then Palestinians strategically melded their informal institutional practices with the formal rules of political outsiders. Palestinian refugees, to varying degrees of success, managed to protect their assets and community from predation and state incorporation.
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Museum Opens Gaza Exhibit and Commemorates the Nakba
The Museum of the Palestinian People's latest exhibition, \"Dreams Rising: Palestinian Children in Gaza Imagine a Future Beyond Trauma,\" opened on May 14. Curator Ahmed Mansour said the children's original images reimagine a liberated Gaza and challenge adults everywhere to act now for a just future. With rain forecast, the museum erected tents on the sidewalk to protect food, guests and musical equipment. Composer and oud artist Fuad Foty, aka \"DC's Voice of Palestine,\" and his 14-year-old daughter Yasmine, played Palestinian music.
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The destruction of old Jaffa in 1936 and the question of the Arab refugees
One outcome of the Jewish-Arab conflict at the time of the British Mandate was the Arab refugee problem. It usually accompanied any escalation in hostilities and was evident at foci of the friction between Arabs and Jews. Reprisals by the authorities against the Arab population was an additional cause. At the time of the Arab Revolt the refugee issue assumed for the first time significant proportions as a result of destructive actions by the British army, the greatest being the home demolition operations unleashed in Jaffa. As a result many families became refugees inside and outside their city. For the first time in the Mandate period the British government was obliged to contend with the problem of Arab refugees that it itself had created, and resolve it. The article aims to shed light on a unique operation by the Mandatory government intended to establish a locality to house Arab refugees, which was implemented and completed in the Mandate period. The article shows that for the authorities the establishment of a quarter for refugees was the required and most appropriate solution to the problem that had arisen.
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Palestinians Continue to Suffer in Lebanese Refugee Camps
In 1948, some 110,000 Palestinians fled to Lebanon after being violently forced from their homes by Jewish militants seeking to create the State of Israel. With Israel still refusing to allow these displaced individuals to return home, they remain trapped in Lebanon's poverty-ridden refugee camps. On January 25, the Balfour Project, a UK-based organization which stands for peace, justice and equal rights in Israel and Palestine, held a webinar with two members of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) to discuss the plight of Palestinians in Lebanon. Despite being in Lebanon for over 70 years, more than half of Palestinian refugees continue to live in dire overcrowded conditions in the camps with substandard housing, Wafa Dakwar, program manager in Beirut for MAP and a Palestinian refugee herself, explained.
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The New York Times Commitment to Zionism Begins With Its Own Staff
New York Times on notice. Since the Zionist genocide in Gaza began over 20 months ago, the \"paper of record\" has run cover for Israel's war crimes. They have witnessed the Zionist entity drop 2,000 pound bombs on displaced Palestinians forced to survive in tents, massacre starving Palestinians at aid sites, arrest and torture Palestinians accused of fighting back for administering care, destroy Gaza's entire healthcare system, obliterate almost every one of its schools and universities, damage over 90 percent of residential buildings, and block food and supplies from entering the besieged Strip. But New York Times journalists have chosen to ignore, whitewash, distort or justify each one of these crimes. As much as any weapons manufacturer, The New York Times is a part of the machinery of war--producing, in the realm of public opinion, the impunity that enables and sustains Israel's ongoing genocide.
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