{"id":84737,"date":"2023-12-05T04:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/medics-did-not-know-how-to-deal-with-traumatised-child-hostages-released-by-hamas-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:48:12","slug":"medics-did-not-know-how-to-deal-with-traumatised-child-hostages-released-by-hamas-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/medics-did-not-know-how-to-deal-with-traumatised-child-hostages-released-by-hamas-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Medics ‘did not know how to deal with’ traumatised child hostages released by Hamas | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The chief executive of a children’s hospital in Israel says the trauma suffered by youngsters released by Hamas is so great they “just don’t know how to treat” them.<\/p>\n

A total of 78 women and children were brought back to Israel from Gaza during the seven-day truce last week, having been held for around 50 days by Hamas since being taken hostage on 7 October.<\/p>\n

The children came back “very skinny”, according to Schneider Children’s Medical Centre’s chief executive, and had to ration the food they got during their captivity.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> Israel-Gaza latest as IDF operations in northern Gaza ‘nearly complete’<\/strong><\/p>\n

While they are beginning to eat normal portions, Dr Efrat Bron-Harlev said “the hard part is how to treat their soul” – adding “we just don’t know how to treat those children”.<\/p>\n

“We’ve read everything possible about children in captivity with their children, without families, things have happened in different places,” she said in a news conference.<\/p>\n

“But an event like this, of children facing what they did on 7 October as an event by itself.<\/p>\n

“And then in captivity in such a horrific place for so many days, with or without others\u2026 this is something we did not know how to deal with.”<\/p>\n

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They have a “very large team” of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists, she said, who have seen “the worst” over 33 years at the centre, but these problems are entirely new.<\/p>\n

One child told staff she “actually thought everyone forgot” about her, Dr Bron-Harlev said, because Hamas told her “nobody cares about you”.<\/p>\n

Read more:
Who are the first 79 Israeli hostages released by Hamas?
Hamas claims youngest Israeli hostage has died<\/strong><\/p>\n

“They told me, she said, that nobody cares about you anymore,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Nobody’s looking for you. Nobody wants you back. You can hear the bombs around. All they want to do is to kill you and us together.<\/p>\n

“A 13-year-old girl – this is what she has to hear for 50 days.”<\/p>\n

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She said the immediate challenge is for her to “believe her parents were looking for her” and “care for her”.<\/p>\n

“This is not something that takes a day or two to even start understanding how you make that child believe,” she added.<\/p>\n

Other children have been asking staff for permission to open doors or cabinets, while some have even asked if they can shower for the first time since their kidnapping.<\/p>\n

Some only got to bathe with a bucket of cold water during captivity, she said, “if they’re lucky”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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