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Last update - 01:49 07/01/2008 20 percent of evacuated Gaza settlers have sought psychological help By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel  Approximately 20 percent of the settlers who were evicted from their homes in the Gaza Strip in 2005 have sought psychological treatment in the period since then, according to a study being submitted Monday to the Knesset Subcommittee on Evacuee Affairs. According to the study, compiled by social worker Ronit Shoham, who coordinates welfare services for the evacuees, some 1,700 settlers have sought counseling at the Ma'anim mental-health service. An additional unknown number have also sought help in private clinics. No fewer than 710 families of evicted settlers required welfare services, an increase of 77.5 percent, as compared with the period before the eviction. Advertisement The conditions under which many of the evacuees live has led to such problems as the following, according to the report (which recommends continued provision of mental-health services to the evacuees): "diminished parental abilities, continued helplessness on the part of parents in creating a financially safe future for their children, discordant conjugal relations and increased tensions in the family in general, a diminished sense of belonging and frustration to the point of depression." The committee for the evacuees of Gush Katif says construction of permanent homes has begun in only two of the 25 settlements designated for absorbing the evacuees. Related articles: Study: Delay in resettling Gaza evacuees cost state $1 billion Gov't far from finding solution for Gush Katif evacuees MK Levy to ask panel to award Israel Prize to Gaza evacuees Bookmark to del.icio.us   Finkelstein in Lebanon A vocal U.S. critic of Israel met Monday with a senior Hezbollah official. Holocaustland 2007 sees record number of visitors at Auschwitz extermination camp.   1.   Do Displaced Palestinians Get Psychological Help? 01:58  |  MIKE 07/01/08   2.   Let the West Bank evacuation begin 03:22  |  Jon 07/01/08   3.   What? No resettlement? 04:27  |  igco 07/01/08   4.   it`s good that these services are being offered... 05:56  |  eric 07/01/08   5.   Those poor evicted settlers 09:06  |  Steve the Pals. 07/01/08   6.   95% of unevacuated settlers need psychologival help 09:11  |  Natallie Durson 07/01/08   7.   We`ve learned one lesson 10:05  |  Shira Schmidt 07/01/08   8.   # 7 to shira re: crises 12:33  |  eric 07/01/08   9.   eric of nm .....the crisis when Israel left Gaza 14:14  |  Lynn 07/01/08   10.   Research on the Effects of mass forced uprooting 19:47  |  Dr Moshe Leibler 07/01/08   11.   Settlements: to Eric 19:49  |  Elinoam 07/01/08   12.   # 11 to elinoam re: settlements 07:31  |  eric 08/01/08

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