Amongst the rubble of the Zeitoun area of northern Gaza, a group of women have gathered. They are sitting in the dust where one of their houses once stood, headscarves on the heads, their barefoot children clambering all over them.
This is no ordinary mothers' meeting. It has been organised by the Gaza Mental Health programme, which aims to help women here following Israel's military assault, as they try to bring up their families under Israel's continuing blockade.
The women talk openly about the misery they face - homelessness, the death of loved ones, whose photos they love to hand round, their children's trauma after the horrors they've seen.
But much harder for them discuss, the mental health workers say, is the abuse increasing numbers of Gaza women suffer at home.
This is no ordinary mothers' meeting. It has been organised by the Gaza Mental Health programme, which aims to help women here following Israel's military assault, as they try to bring up their families under Israel's continuing blockade.
The women talk openly about the misery they face - homelessness, the death of loved ones, whose photos they love to hand round, their children's trauma after the horrors they've seen.
But much harder for them discuss, the mental health workers say, is the abuse increasing numbers of Gaza women suffer at home.
Complete report at: BBC NEWS | Middle East | Gazan women face rise in abuse:
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