Displacement, Survival, and Shifting Social Bonds: How War Is Reshaping Community Networks and Collective Behavior in Gaza

A deep, impartial analysis of Gaza society's disintegrative transformations: the pre-war social background, the forms of family, class and spatial breakdown, and their effects on women and children.

Author

Pal-Think research team

Date

2025-08-01

Key points

• Social disintegration touches family, class, and place-based bonds all at once.
• Women, children, and vulnerable groups bear the heaviest burden of the disintegration.
• Shelters multiply psychological and social pressures instead of relieving them.

Recommendations

• Specialised programmes to rebuild social networks in displacement areas.
• Integrate psychosocial treatment into all relief programmes.
• Policies to reunite scattered families.