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“We Haven’t Even Started Crying Yet”: Caring for the Family Under Occupation and War in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Beesan Maraqa, Ameed Taher, Husam Dweik, Ahmad Abu Hadwan and Therese Zink
The Annals of Family Medicine November 2024, 3170; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.3170
Beesan Maraqa
1Assistant Professor at Faculty of Medicine, Hebron University, Palestine
MD, MPH
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Ameed Taher
2Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
MD
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Husam Dweik
3Medical college /Hebron University, Hebron, West Bank, Palestine
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Ahmad Abu Hadwan
3Medical college /Hebron University, Hebron, West Bank, Palestine
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Therese Zink
4Family Medicine, Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island
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ABSTRACT

Providing care for families under occupation has always been marked by scarce resources and too many patients. The current war in Gaza has dramatically worsened conditions in the Occupied Territories of Palestine (OTP). A family physician and her team in the southern West Bank describe their own challenges and give voice to the physicians in the OTP they interviewed to better understand the professional and personal challenges of living and working during the uncertainty of war.

Key words:
  • war
  • Palestine
  • family medicine
  • physicians
  • Occupation
  • delivery of health care
  • Received for publication March 17, 2024.
  • Revision received May 20, 2024.
  • Accepted for publication July 22, 2024.
  • © 2024 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
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“We Haven’t Even Started Crying Yet”: Caring for the Family Under Occupation and War in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Beesan Maraqa, Ameed Taher, Husam Dweik, Ahmad Abu Hadwan, Therese Zink
The Annals of Family Medicine Nov 2024, 3170; DOI: 10.1370/afm.3170
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