All articles related to MSF activities in Palestine and Gaza.
Gaza City is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as Israel’s latest military assault escalates, pushing people to the brink and threatening the survival of what remains of the health system. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams warn it will be impossible to force one million people – including hundreds of critically ill patients and newborn […]
Across the West Bank, Palestinians are facing forced mass displacement by Israeli forces and settlers, significantly heightening the risk of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This comes amid recent calls by Israeli authorities for the country to annex the West Bank. More than at any point in our […]
Read More… from Palestine: Risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
On August 23, heavy gunfire broke out while people, including children, were gathered around one of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water-trucking distribution points in Khan Younis. In the chaos of the moment, it was not clear where these intense and consecutive bursts of gunshots were fired from. A young girl waiting for water […]
Jerome Grimaud, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza, condemns the double Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younès, in the south of the Gaza Strip. “We denounce in the strongest possible terms Israel’s horrendous attacks on the Nasser medical complex today – the only partially functioning public hospital in the south of Gaza. Israeli forces […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns Israel’s double strike on Nasser hospital
“This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing,” a new report from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), documents the horrors witnessed by MSF staff at two clinics in Gaza that regularly received mass influxes of casualties following violence at sites run by the GHF, an Israeli-US proxy that has militarized food distribution. An analysis […]
A study published by the Lancet documents the immense human toll of indiscriminate attacks on people in Gaza, based on an analysis of medical data from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). An analysis of more than 200,000 MSF consultations in six MSF-supported health structures in 2024 found that explosive weapons, such as bombs and grenades, were […]
Read More… from Palestine: Explosive weapons cause widespread carnage in Gaza
On Thursday, July 24, I tried to go to Zikim to get flour. I waited there all night, but I got nothing. On Friday, I decided to try again. My father did not want me to go because last time I went, I saw many dead people from the shelling and shooting from tanks. But we […]
Read More… from Palestine: “What I dream about is for all this to be over.”
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 […]
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