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Northeast Syria: Humanitarian support continues amid growing needs

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In response to significant contextual developments in Syria, including substantial displacement caused by ongoing hostilities in the northern part of the country, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing critical assistance to tens of thousands of displaced people. According to local authorities, more than 80,000 people have been displaced into the areas of Tabqa, […]

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Haiti: Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area 

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A series of threats by police forces against Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organization to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times and directly threatened MSF staff members, including death and rape threats, in the week following […]

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Sumy, Ukraine: “It’s hard when you see the lifeless bodies of children”

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On the evening of Nov. 17, a densely populated area in Sumy city, northeastern Ukraine was bombed. The explosion struck a courtyard surrounded by residential buildings, damaging 13 structures and dozens of apartments. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency ambulance teams provided medical assistance to injured residents. According to preliminary information from local authorities, […]

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Sudan: 16 per cent of war-wounded patients at south Khartoum hospital children

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Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since Jan. 2024 have been under the age of 15. Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel wounds. Doctors are also concerned about the spike in children arriving at the hospital severely malnourished. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working […]

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Lebanon: Families, children, seek shelter in school in Bichwet amid escalating violence

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On 23 September, after nearly one year of cross-border attacks along Lebanon’s southern border, Israel escalated its bombardment of Lebanon, causing waves of mass displacement that have surpassed the country’s ability to provide adequate shelter.  *  Fatima’s vibrant smile slowly fades away after entering the classroom. Desks and chairs are stacked on one side of […]

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Haiti: MSF outraged by attack on its ambulance by law enforcement and execution of patients

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers. On November 11, an MSF ambulance transporting three young people with gunshot wounds was stopped by Haitian police […]

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Sudan: MSF resumes outpatient nutritional program for children in Zamzam camp amid severe malnutrition crisis

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) resumed its outpatient nutritional program in Zamzam camp, near El Fasher in North Darfur, for children suffering from acute malnutrition after receiving therapeutic food supplies this week. MSF was forced to stop outpatient treatment for 5,000 children with acute malnutrition in Zamzam camp in late September after the warring parties […]

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Sudan: “Echoes of Darfur”

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One and a half years into the conflict in Sudan, refugees are still fleeing to eastern Chad in search for safety, where they arrive at camps in dire conditions. Access to clean water, sanitation and healthcare facilities is limited. We met Aziz, Youssef, Salwa, and Amina to hear their stories of fleeing the Darfur region of Sudan and survival in […]

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Treating Open Wounds in Tulkarem, West Bank

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It’s a sunny morning in Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem, West Bank. Over twenty women are filing into a room set up by MSF staff, sitting in a circle and chatting over Arabic coffee. In the middle of the room, there is a table with gauze, tourniquet devices and charts explaining blood flow in […]

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Detention of Dr Mohammed Obeid and several medical staff from Kamal Adwan Hospital, North Gaza

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has received confirmation that Dr Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon, has been detained by Israeli forces along with several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza during a military operation at the hospital on 26 October. We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague. […]

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