Attacks on children in Gaza: Injuries, trauma, and survival

Date and Time

March 12, 2025

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location

Zoom – Registration Required

Webinar Recording

Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT | 6:00pm – 7:30pm EEST

Location: Zoom – Registration required

Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a panel discussion about injuries specific to children in the Gaza Strip over the last year. We will be joined by Budour Hassan, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa researcher, Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medicine physician who worked in Gaza in August and December 2024, and Mohammad Mansour, psychotherapist, specialized in treating trauma, sexual assault victims, and emergency intervention. The conversation will be moderated by Ayesha Kadir, paediatrician and public health consultant.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Moderator:

Ayesha Kadir, MD, MSc

Ayesha Kadir is a paediatrician and public health consultant. She works in clinical care, public health research, health policy, and advocacy. Her clinical work is in paediatric emergency medicine and social paediatrics in Europe and in humanitarian settings. Her research, advocacy and policy work focuses on the effects of migration, armed conflict, and other forms of violence on children and families, and in finding effective ways to protect and promote children’s and families’ health, wellbeing, and rights. Dr. Kadir has worked in east, west, and southern Africa, the Middle East, Haiti, western and eastern Europe, and the United States with international NGOs, universities, governments and the World Health Organization.

Speakers:

Budour Hassan

Budour Hassan is a Palestinian feminist, writer and researcher. She is Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa researcher, investigating and documenting human rights violations in Israel/Palestine. She is one of the co-authors of Amnesty International’s landmark report “You feel like you are subhuman”: Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza , published on 5 December 2024. Before joining Amnesty she worked as a legal researcher and advocacy officer at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human rights Center, where she authored the first comprehensive report on Israel’s policy of withholding the bodies of deceased Palestinians. As a freelance writer, she writes in Arabic and English on issues ranging from everyday life under occupation and apartheid to disability rights, women rights and south-south solidarity. She studies law and philosophy and is extremely, unapologetically biased against injustice.

Mohammad Mansour

Mohamed Mansour is a psychotherapist, specialized in treating trauma, sexual assault victims, and emergency intervention. He is the co-founder and mental health consultant for Humanity Crew and has been a volunteer with Physicians for Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza since 2002.

Mimi Syed, MD

Dr. Mimi Syed, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, is an assistant clinical professor at University of Washington and Washington State University. She is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Syed served in Gaza from August 8 to September 5, 2024, and December 3 to December 31, 2024, at both al-Aqsa Hospital and Nasser Hospital.

Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.