All articles related to MSF activities in Palestine and Gaza.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is utterly appalled and outraged by the Israeli airstrike on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, last night. The airstrike hit Nasser’s surgery building, killing six people, including a child and a surgeon, and injuring 52 others. No warning was given before the attack. Among the injured, MSF has […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns another deadly attack on Nasser hospital
For 10 days, Palestinians in Hebron and surrounding communities faced military raids, forced evictions, arrests, demolitions of houses and businesses and severe movement restrictions, with disastrous consequences for their access to healthcare. Many people were prevented from reaching medical facilities, while healthcare workers and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff were unable to reach […]
Read More… from Palestine: Israeli lockdown in Hebron forces MSF to temporarily suspend care
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of physician Mohammed Obeid. He remains detained by Israel without any charges since Oct. 26, 2024. Mohammed Obeid, an orthopedic surgeon, was arrested while providing lifesaving medical care in the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of Gaza. Since his detention he […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF surgeon must be released after two years of arbitrary detention
The queue to collect food. Rain pouring through a tent. A tank bulldozing buildings. An omnipresent quadcopter. Friends they used to play with. Dina, Rahaf, Motassem and several other children from Gaza quietly explain the meaning of their drawings, but their stories are anything but quiet. The drawings were made during group psychosocial sessions organized […]
Read More… from Palestine: Drawing Gaza through the eyes of children
On the evening of Oct. 15, Israeli settlers violently assaulted a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleague with a hand-sized rock launched by a slingshot during a targeted attack by settlers on his village in the south of the West Bank. Our colleague required immediate medical attention. This incident is not isolated. Over the […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns Israel is progressively asphyxiating Gaza and continuing its genocide. The space in which people can live is vanishing, while the conditions needed to survive is being systematically destroyed through continued violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies and the destruction of healthcare and essential infrastructure. In the past […]
Read More… from Palestine: Three years on, Israel continues to asphyxiate Gaza
More than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed during the genocide in Gaza. Israel has detained hundreds more without charges. Doctors, nurses and paramedics who stayed to treat the wounded have themselves become casualties of this war. When medical staff are killed, imprisoned or disappear, it is not only healthcare workers who pay the price. […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF urges release of detained Palestinian medics in Israel
On July 25, once again, our medical teams in Gaza, Palestine, treated patients with devastating blast injuries caused by Israeli forces’ airstrikes. Seven airstrikes hit different areas of Gaza between 12 and 6 pm. A total of eight wounded patients were referred to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field hospital in Al Zawayda, […]
Hussam Abu Safiya, a physician and director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza, remains in solitary confinement after being detained for one and a half years. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is outraged by the treatment of healthcare workers, most of whom are being detained in dire conditions, without justification or cause. We join […]
In the West Bank, Palestine, decades of Israeli restrictions and deadly violence have shaped Palestinians’ daily lives and access to essential services. The situation has worsened since the all-out war in Gaza began in 2023. A total of 1,109 Palestinians — at least 243 of them children — have been killed by Israeli forces and […]