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After the 9-day incursion that took place in Jenin from 28 August to 6 September, MSF teams resumed their psychological first-aid activities in the refugee camp.

Salwa and Rahma visit the camp weekly to meet the residents and make assessments on their mental health and evolution.

?The level of destruction keeps becoming bigger, and the psychological impact is huge? explains Rahma, ?residents believe that what is happening in Gaza will happen as well in the camp. Many people, and especially women and children, suffer from symptoms of psychological trauma, and develop eating and sleeping problems like recurrent nightmares and anxiety due to the fear of incursions which often happen at night?

People cannot feel safe given the brutality of the incursions and the impossibility to foresee when the next one will come. In this context, psychological treatment is challenging as the trauma is ongoing.