{"id":7589,"date":"2026-06-28T12:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcdcr.org\/?p=7589"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:07:12","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%af-%d8%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcdcr.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%af-%d8%b9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Integrated Needs of Gaza's Orphans After Two and a Half Years of War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span>New release<\/span><\/p>\n

Peer-reviewed field study<\/p>\n

The Psychological, Social, Educational, Economic, Emotional and Legal Needs of Gaza's Orphans After Two and a Half Years of War<\/h2>\n

A field study combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to document the lives of orphans in displacement camps, translating its findings into practical intervention pathways and legal reforms that redefine who is entitled to care.<\/p>\n

671<\/b> orphaned children<\/span>11<\/b> in-depth interviews<\/span>7<\/b> focus groups (~60 children)<\/span>6<\/b> dimensions of need<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution has released a large-scale field study of the needs of Gaza's orphans two and a half years into the war. The study uses a mixed-methods design that brings together 671 orphaned children<\/span> with in-depth interviews and focus groups that carry the child's own voice, so that it reads the wound from the inside, not from the numbers alone.<\/p>\n

The central finding is striking in its simplicity: the median orphan in the sample sits exactly at the clinical referral threshold<\/b>, meaning that disorder has become the norm, not the exception. This is a population-level crisis, not individual cases waiting for a clinic, and its signature is silent and internalising,<\/b> hidden by aggregate scores; the most vulnerable are sole survivors and maternal orphans. The study concludes with four service components and a structural reform built on whole-family care and redefined entitlement<\/b> around need for care.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Key Figures<\/h2>\n
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SDQ-25<\/span>53.65%<\/span>above the psychological referral threshold; the mean (17.23) equals the threshold itself<\/span><\/div>\n
War orphanhood<\/span>89.87%<\/span>lost a parent to the war: compound trauma, not ordinary orphanhood<\/span><\/div>\n
CRIES-8<\/span>88.24%<\/span>of sole survivors are above the post-traumatic stress threshold<\/span><\/div>\n
Internalising signature<\/span>68.41%<\/span>above the emotional subscale threshold: a silent wound beyond what the total score captures<\/span><\/div>\n
Caregivers<\/span>81.22%<\/span>of caregivers themselves report needing psychological support<\/span><\/div>\n
Shelter<\/span>76.45%<\/span>live in tents, and the tent is an independent psychological risk factor<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span>Geographical Distribution of the Samplen = 671<\/span><\/h2>\n
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1<\/span>Gaza Governorate<\/span>397 children59.17%<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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2<\/span>North Gaza<\/span>163 children24.29%<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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3<\/span>Deir al-Balah<\/span>111 children16.54%<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u25c6<\/span>Fieldwork covered the northern and central governorates (safe access to Khan Younis and Rafah was not possible). For comparison with the reference population structure (PCBS 2023)<\/b>: Gaza 51.7% \u00b7 North Gaza 27.6% \u00b7 Deir al-Balah 20.7%.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span>Key Recommendations<\/h2>\n
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1<\/span>Mobile psychological first-aid and screening units<\/b>that go to the child with non-stigmatising activities (play, drawing and storytelling), and screen by subscale and CRIES, not by the total score alone.<\/span><\/div>\n
2<\/span>Whole-family care<\/b>that brings mothers into every intervention and supports exhausted caregivers, with no less than 30% of programme resources.<\/span><\/div>\n
3<\/span>Inclusion in learning spaces and protection of boys<\/b>since education is the strongest protective factor, with an alternative path of meaning that fills the father's absence before revenge does.<\/span><\/div>\n
4<\/span>Redefining orphan entitlement<\/b>around \u201cneed for care\u201d rather than \u201closs of the breadwinner\u201d, to do justice to maternal orphans and the administratively invisible \u201cde facto orphan\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n
5<\/span>A regular cash lifeline, and shelter as advocacy, not a promise<\/b>Material support is the first stated need (85.10%) and the gateway to ending child labour.<\/span><\/div>\n
6<\/span>Training specialised staff<\/b>who can detect the silent wound and manage screening and debriefing, the foundation that comes before everything else: \u201cno screening without a trained eye\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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