Up until September 2023, I was engaged in a Middle East and North Africa Social Policy Network (MENASP) grant project entitled: Making the Invisible Visible: Slow Violence, Mental Health and Resilience in Gaza. This project built on a previous preliminary study, supported by the Wellcome Trust (2019 – 2020, conducted during the COVID pandemic), which had focused on the spatial politics of health, death and life in Gaza: a Strip which is 25 miles long by some 7 miles wide, with a population of 2.3 million people. It has been under an indefinite blockade, imposed by Israel, since 2007, after Ham…