All articles related to MSF activities in Palestine and Gaza.
Earlier today, an MSF surgeon was injured inside Al-Awda hospital in north Gaza by a shot fired from outside the facility. Our colleagues report snipers surrounding the hospital, firing on those inside. Al-Awda has been under total siege by Israeli forces since 5 December. “Let us be clear: Al Awda is a functioning hospital with […]
Read More… from Northern Gaza: MSF surgeon injured in Al-Awda hospital
“The US veto makes it complicit in the carnage in Gaza,” said Avril Benoît, Executive Director of MSF-USA. Today, Dec. 8, the United Nations Security Council failed to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza—blocked by a veto from the United States. The Security Council held an emergency meeting to discuss the humanitarian catastrophe in […]
Read More… from MSF calls US veto of Gaza ceasefire resolution “a vote against humanity”
The United Nations Security Council must demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire, to lift the siege and ensure unrestricted aid to the entire Gaza Strip. To date, the inaction of the United Nations Security Council and vetoes from member states, particularly the United States, make them complicit in the ongoing slaughter; this inaction has given […]
Read More… from Gaza: The UN Security Council must end its complicity in the ongoing carnage
Since the fragile truce in the Gaza Strip, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, collapsed on Dec. 1, aerial and ground attacks by Israeli forces have resulted in hundreds of people killed and injured. Two hospitals supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Al-Aqsa in the Middle Area and Nasser in the south of the […]
On 18 November 2023, an MSF evacuation convoy came under fire in Gaza city. Two people were killed in what immediately appeared as a deliberate attack against clearly identified MSF cars. Both were family members of MSF staff, one of them was also a volunteer supporting MSF medical teams at Al-Shifa hospital. Two weeks later, […]
This morning, the truce broke after a week. Israeli forces have called for people in some neighbourhoods in the Middle Area and Khan Younis to evacuate further south to Rafah. MSF-supported clinics Martyrs and Beni Suhaila are located in areas under the evacuation order. Nearly a million internally displaced people in the Strip have sought shelter in the south of Gaza, […]
Read More… from Gaza: Israeli forces issue evacuation orders as fighting resumes
Following the outbreak of war in early October between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Israeli forces have repeatedly pushed people to move from the north of Gaza to the south. Today, the humanitarian situation in the south of Gaza is dire and unsafe. Intense bombardment and fighting have uprooted over 1.8 million […]
Read More… from Five things to know about the dire situation in southern Gaza
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors, Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad Al Sahar, and a third doctor working with Al Awda, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari, following a strike on Al Awda Hospital, one of the last remaining functional hospitals in Northern Gaza. Our thoughts are […]
Read More… from MSF doctors killed in strike on Al Awda hospital in Northern Gaza
Earlier today an Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) outpatient burn clinic in Gaza city came under fire – this is one of the three MSF buildings where our staff has been sheltering with their families. We had over 20 people, our staff and family members, inside when it happened. The MSF clinic in Gaza […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF clinic in Gaza city came under fire
One person was killed and one was injured in an attack today, Nov. 18, 2023, on a convoy of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members and their families who had been attempting to evacuate from northern Gaza. The person who was killed was a relative of an MSF staff member. MSF condemns in […]