All Systems Go

States are facing mounting challenges in delivering mental health services as they respond to rising crisis-care demands and sort through the fallout of H.R. 1. According to Fierce Healthcare, the combination of emergency response obligations and shifting federal policy is straining state mental health systems, raising questions about how states will fund and staff care going forward.

A Palestinian teenager says he would rather die than return to Israeli detention after spending ten months held in Israeli prisons. In an account published by +972 Magazine, he describes harsh conditions faced by Palestinian minors in the military detention system, including reports of mistreatment. The testimony adds to growing scrutiny of Israel's treatment of Palestinian child prisoners during the ongoing war and mass detentions in the occupied territories.