Category: Palestine

Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns.  MSF staff are receiving an increasing number of malnourished patients at our clinics, while they themselves struggle to find sufficient food. Across screenings […]

Read More… from Palestine: MSF finds one in four young children and pregnant women malnourished as Israel’s policy of starvation continues

It started with two babies sharing one incubator – this is already completely unacceptable and shocking to see. Then it increased to three and last week we saw five babies in one incubator. With all the attacks on healthcare facilities, today there are just 36 incubators in northern Gaza compared to 126 before October 2023.   […]

Read More… from Palestine: Premature babies fight for their lives in northern Gaza

EU foreign ministers have once again refused to take substantial action to end the deliberate and systemic destruction of Palestinian lives in Gaza, making them complicit in the genocide that the Israeli authorities are committing.  While EU leaders issue misleading statements after their July 15 meeting on Gaza and the EU high representative, Kaja Kallas, […]

Read More… from Palestine: MSF statement on the EU’s failure to protect people in Gaza again

As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organizations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.   Exactly two months since the Israeli government-controlled scheme, the […]

Read More… from Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing a sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition among Palestinians in Gaza. At MSF’s clinics in Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza and Gaza City in the north, we are seeing the highest number of malnutrition cases ever recorded by our teams. More than 700 pregnant and breastfeeding […]

Read More… from Palestine: Acute malnutrition reaches an all-time high in two MSF facilities

A recent retrospective mortality survey of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff and their families reveals the appalling death rate of Israel’s all-out war on Gaza, especially among children. These findings are consistent with conflict-related figures provided by Gaza’s Ministry of Health (MoH).   The survey was run by MSF’s research arm Epicentre, and […]

Read More… from Palestine: MSF survey of staff and their families in Gaza shows almost half of people killed in the war are children