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Intense unabated fighting and shelling in Gaza city continue to prevent thousands of people from safely leaving the area. Over the past six days, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been trying to evacuate some of its staff and their families – 137 people, 65 of them children – currently trapped inside MSF premises located […]
ATTACKS MUST STOP NOW Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. […]
Read More… from Gaza: Patients and medical staff trapped in hospitals under fire
Since Oct. 7 we have seen a dramatic increase in violence from Israeli forces in Jenin. Since then, our teams have treated over 30 patients with gunshot and blast wounds. Today, there has been a surge in violence, with widespread bombing and shooting – this morning leaflets were dropped on Jenin refugee camp, telling residents […]
Read More… from Jenin: MSF condemns attacks on healthcare facilities
MSF Canada Executive Director Joseph Belliveau has written to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to do everything in his power to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, I am writing to you on behalf of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to urgently request that the Canadian Government do everything within […]
It’s 2:30 a.m. and doctors are huddling outside the entrance to Jenin hospital in the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories. A brief lull in the ricocheting gunfire is followed by the sound of men shouting and the screeching of tyres as a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, or tuk-tuk, turns into the gates of the hospital. […]
Read More… from Israeli forces and settlers ramp up violence against Palestinians in West Bank
Today, we are mourning the loss of one of our team members in Gaza, Mohammed Al Ahel, who was killed along with several members of his family on Nov. 6. Mohammed had been a laboratory technician for MSF for over two years and was at his home in Al Shate Refugee Camp when the area […]
Read More… from MSF mourns the killing of our colleague in Gaza
Thousands of Gazans working in Israel had their permits cancelled after Oct. 7, 2023. Following the attacks carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7, thousands of Gazans working in Israel had their permits cancelled. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Labour, around 6,000 are now displaced in the West Bank, some living in deplorable conditions. […]
Read More… from Gazans displaced in West Bank long to return home
Dr Obaid, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor at Al Shifa hospital, was an eyewitness to the horrendous attack to an ambulance yesterday, November 3rd. “We were standing inside the hospital gate when the ambulance was directly hit in front of us. There were bloody bodies everywhere. Many were killed immediately, while we rushed […]
Read More… from Gaza: Attack on ambulance outside Al-Shifa hospital
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the events that began on Oct. 7, 2023 – both the brutal mass killing of civilians perpetrated by Hamas in Israel, and by the massive attacks on Gaza being pursued by the Israeli military. An unprecedented humanitarian crisis continues in Gaza. MSF teams have worked to […]
All Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff unable to leave Gaza since Oct. 7 have successfully crossed the Egypt border via the Rafah Crossing. A window has been negotiated to allow for foreign passport holders and international aid workers to cross. This group includes 22 MSF staff. Although some names have been circulated on […]