All articles related to MSF activities in Palestine and Gaza.
Palestinians in Gaza are enduring one of the darkest chapters of the current war since its onset in October 2023. With hostilities reigniting on March 18, Israeli forces have intensified their military operations across Gaza, while forcibly displacing people en masse with evacuation orders, attacks and killings of medical and humanitarian workers. These actions, combined […]
A burn injury is more than just a wound – it is a prolonged sentence of suffering, and profoundly so in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Many people have extensive burns covering large portions of their bodies – some as much as 40 per cent of their total body surface. After over 19 months of attacks […]
Read More… from Palestine: No relief, little chance of recovery for Gaza’s burn patients
As Israeli forces resume and expand their military offensive by air, ground and sea on the Gaza Strip, forcibly displacing people and deliberately blocking essential assistance, Palestinian lives are once again being systematically destroyed, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). A series of deadly attacks by Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for […]
Read More… from Palestine: Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike on the morning of April 1 in southwest of Deir al Balah, central Gaza. His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack. Our colleague Hussam was killed along with […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF mourns the killing of eleventh colleague
A month-long siege imposed by Israeli authorities in Gaza, Palestine, means some critical medications are now short in supply and are running out, leaving Palestinians at risk of losing vital healthcare, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As Israeli forces continue to bomb the Gaza Strip, depriving people of basic needs, including food, water […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns Israel’s strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis – the largest remaining functioning hospital in the Gaza Strip, where MSF teams work. On March 23, Israeli forces targeted the hospital’s inpatient surgical department, killing two people, according to the Ministry of Health. MSF teams confirmed there were […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza
In the rubble of a shattered ceasefire and more deaths, another tactic of war is playing out as Israeli authorities essentially block access to water by cutting electricity and fuel from entering Gaza, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As Israeli forces continue to rain down bombs on the Strip, MSF calls for the […]
Read More… from Palestine: Amid shattered ceasefire, water becomes another weapon of war
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is shocked and saddened by the killing of our colleague Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal by an Israeli airstrike on his apartment building in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza, Palestine. Along with hundreds of others across the Gaza Strip, Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal was killed in the early morning of […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF mourns the killing of tenth colleague in Gaza
In the early hours of March 18, renewed attacks on parts of Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, hundreds of people have been killed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the attacks launched by Israel on March 18 on the people of Gaza, shattering the nearly two-month-old ceasefire. Out of the […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF teams respond to “ruthless attacks” by Israeli forces in Gaza
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza, which is depriving people of basic services and critical supplies, including access to water by cutting electricity supply on March 9. Israeli authorities have instrumentalized humanitarian needs by using them as a bargaining chip, such as cutting the electricity supply to Gaza […]