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 […]
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. […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), provides medical humanitarian care to people who have been forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict, persecution and, increasingly, climate change. Our teams provide vital medical care at every step of people’s treacherous displacement journeys, including providing surgery and trauma care, maternal health and obstetrics services, vaccination […]
The Israeli Knesset’s ban on UNRWA’s operations voted on Oct. 28 represents a devastating blow to Palestinian life. It will further undermine people’s survival prospects in Gaza and heavily impact communities in the West Bank. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces this legislation, which represents an inhumane ban on vital humanitarian aid. The Knesset’s […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the safety and whereabouts of Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon who was sheltering and working in Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza, with whom we lost contact since the afternoon of Oct. 25. The hospital and its surroundings have been subjected to intense military operations by […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF calls for safety and information on missing doctor
Following the large-scale Israeli bombardment in Lebanon over the past week, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese families including MSF staff, have been forced out of their houses and pushed on the roads, in a desperate search of a safe place. MSF is providing support to displaced people in shelters, like schools, in the south of […]
Canadian Ada Yee is an MSF emergency coordinator who has worked in over 17 countries, including Ethiopia, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Yemen. She recently completed a four-month assignment in Sudan’s South Darfur region and shares some insight on the impact of the war in Sudan. 17 months after war broke out […]
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Following the widescale Israeli bombings of multiple areas in Lebanon on Monday Sep. 23, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is gradually stepping up its response to the escalating humanitarian needs by delivering primary healthcare and essential relief items to the displaced population. According to the Ministry of Health, 558 people were killed and 1,835 […]
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Dear Parliamentarians, As you return from across the country to the House of Commons in Ottawa for the next sitting of Canada’s Parliament, we find ourselves at a moment of significant global unrest. Hundreds of millions of people’s lives, safety and dignity are at risk due to conflicts, disasters, and their deliberate exclusion from accessing […]
MSF volunteers recount their journey from Myanmar and Malaysia to Canada. […]