By Christopher Lockyear, secretary general, MSF. Originally published on swissinfo on May 26, 2025. On Saturday, May 3, we at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) woke to shock, grief and outrage. Our hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan had been attacked: a helicopter gunship destroyed the pharmacy, shelling followed and drones bombed the market. […]
Israeli forces continue to systematically use last-minute displacement orders as a violent tool, turning the Gaza Strip into hell on earth for Palestinians. Incessant bombing, a near-total blockade of aid and displacement orders are moving and trapping hundreds of thousands of people into ever-shrinking spaces. The constant state of alert and unpredictability of displacement orders […]
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Dear Members of Canada’s 45th Parliament, Congratulations on your election to the House of Commons, where all parties will bear responsibility for ensuring Canada’s government can rise to the challenges of the current global moment. You are taking on this responsibility at a time of unprecedented global upheaval. Multiple large-scale and overlapping international crises – […]
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“I didn’t think that this hospital was going to be bombed,” says David Charo Kahindi, medical coordinator with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in South Sudan, who was in Old Fangak on May 3 when the MSF-supported hospital was bombed. He was part of the team extinguishing the fire and treating and evacuating wounded […]
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An insufficient amount of humanitarian assistance is being allowed into Gaza, merely a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over. Meanwhile, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week by advancing Israeli ground operations, intensified airstrikes and widespread evacuation orders. As […]
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