Gaza mental health specialist says Israeli genocide has traumatised every resident

The head of the Gaza City Mental Health Hospital team, Abdallah al-Jamal, said on Tuesday that Gaza residents are suffering "a volcano" of psychological trauma from Israel's devastating military campaign, Reuters news agency reported. 

The Palestinian mental health specialist, who is now working out of a nearby clinic because the team's building is damaged, said that two years of intense Israeli bombardment have affected all of Gaza's 2.3 million inhabitants.

"With the start of the truce, it was like a volcano erupting in patients seeking mental health services. Even the stigma that used to be present before, the fear of visiting a psychologist, does not exist any more," he said, describing "a very large increase" in numbers from before the conflict.