24.05.2024 – 11:10
Save the Children Deutschland eV
Berlin/Cairo (ots)
Although assist within the Gaza Strip continues to be solely obtainable on a restricted scale, Save the Children is supporting refugee kids in neighboring Egypt to regulate to their struggle life. Many undergo from nightmares and nervousness and wish speedy psychological and psychological assist, the youngsters’s rights group urged.
As of October 7, 2023, roughly 60,000 folks from the Gaza Strip have crossed the border into Egypt looking for safety and well being care there. In the previous three months alone, Save the Children in Egypt has acquired greater than 500 requests from refugees for psychological assist – practically 90 % associated to kids.
“We cannot even think about what it is like for the youngsters who’ve skilled this struggle,” mentioned Laila Toema, a psychologist at Save the Children in Egypt. “They misplaced kinfolk, their homes had been destroyed, many had been injured. In addition, the noise of struggle and the worry of demise. They are secure in Egypt, however many kids undergo from nervousness about their kinfolk in Gaza. This fixed stress damages their well being – bodily and mentally.”
Parents report nervousness, panic, sleep disturbances, wetting and lack of emotion. “Sometimes Egyptian kids play with fireworks, and when my kids hear that, they panic. When they hear the airplane, they get chilly,” mentioned Waleed*, who took refuge in Cairo together with his spouse and 5 kids. 28-year-old Heba* additionally lives in Cairo immediately along with her three kids. All of them had been injured in an airstrike within the Gaza Strip. At the start of the struggle, 7-year-old Rami * had the braveness to consolation his household. “But since he was injured, he’s afraid of each sound, of the darkish, of being alone,” mentioned Heba.
Save the Children gives psychological assist for youngsters and their households as a gaggle and particular person counseling in Egypt and trains Egyptian ambulance staff and volunteers in coping with frightened and traumatized kids. The kids’s rights group additionally gives money to households for medical bills. Ambulances and hospitals are geared up with child incubators and different medical gear, and medical personnel obtain coaching in treating blast-wounded kids.
“For kids to get well bodily and mentally, they should get medical assist,” emphasised psychologist Laila Toema. “Not solely do their accidents have to heal, additionally they have to regain stability and safety. More worldwide assist is urgently wanted to fulfill the short-term and long-term medical wants of those kids.”
This additionally applies to the ladies and boys within the Gaza Strip – Palestinians and Israelis, who’re among the many hostages of seven October and who proceed to be held within the struggle zone. Save the Children requires the discharge of hostages, a right away cessation of hostilities and entry to emergency assist to avoid wasting the lives and future of kids.
Editors notes:
- Save the Children in Egypt assist within the Gaza Strip is partnered with the Egyptian Ministry of Health and with assist from Community Jameel and the Canadian Humanitarian Coalition Fund.
- Due to the closure of the Rafah border, medical evacuations haven’t been doable since May 7. About 600 sufferers who had been speculated to be delivered to Egypt are at present unable to cross the border. Between October 2023 and May 18, 2024 there have been 12,760 requests for medical discharge in Egypt and different nations, solely 4,895 could possibly be made.
Additional materials is on the market for obtain on this press launch, which you should utilize and distribute without cost underneath © Save the Children:
Photos and written report of Rami* and his siblings who had been injured within the blast: www.contenthubsavethechildren.org/Package/2O4C2SOUTDMR
B-roll, video interview and written report from Hani* (28), who got here to Egypt from the Gaza Strip and now cares for different refugees there: www.contenthubsavethechildren.org/Package/2O4C2SOH98NM
Video interview with psychologist Laila Toema and program supervisor Mohamed Moamen of Save the Children: www.contenthubsavethechildren.org/Package/2O4C2SOSVEZN
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