As a Jew, I feel less safe than ever, but now we must share Gazans’ agony

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As a Jew, I feel less safe than ever, but now we must share Gazans’ agony

Ilana Laps Psychotherapist, educator October 19, 2025 — 3.30pm Advertisement

Any moment now, international journalists will enter Gaza , and their photographs – raw, wrenching, undeniable – will burn into the collective human psyche.

The Jewish psyche, already shattered since October 7, must brace for another rupture. What comes next will remake our legacy as a people. As a psychotherapist steeped in intergenerational trauma, I believe this to be a moment of historical importance, one that invites us to preserve our humanity.

Palestinians return this week to the ruins of the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis. Credit: Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via