Together torn apart: reflections of two Palestinian healers in a time of genocide

We are two Palestinian healers, psychotherapists, community workers, activists, and researchers who strive to resist the deluge of Zionist settler-colonial violence and unending نكبة Nakba (“catastrophe”) waged against our people. We enact resistance and refusal by bringing the knowledges and practices that we treasure, which form a decolonial healing praxis, into the center of our work in Palestinian ways. But what are the roles of Palestinian healers in a time of genocide? Is our work even relevant in meeting critical needs in this moment? What are the ways of thinking, feeling, and practicing that guide our work as we are torn apart on the inside, witnessing unending atrocity in this time of monsters, this time of world-ending forces of hate and إبادة ebada (“annihilation”)? These are some of the questions we explore in this article as we write our grief and praxes within this moment of genocide.