All articles related to MSF activities in Palestine and Gaza.
Israeli forces continue to systematically use last-minute displacement orders as a violent tool, turning the Gaza Strip into hell on earth for Palestinians. Incessant bombing, a near-total blockade of aid and displacement orders are moving and trapping hundreds of thousands of people into ever-shrinking spaces. The constant state of alert and unpredictability of displacement orders […]
Read More… from Palestine: Israeli displacement orders in Gaza are psychological warfare
An insufficient amount of humanitarian assistance is being allowed into Gaza, merely a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over. Meanwhile, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week by advancing Israeli ground operations, intensified airstrikes and widespread evacuation orders. As […]
Read More… from Palestine: Aid instrumentalized, health system under fire in Gaza
This week, the Canadian Government made two statements in strong opposition to Israel’s military operations and siege in Gaza. These statements include a joint declaration by Prime Minister Mark Carney and leaders of the United Kingdom and France reaffirming what we at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) already know first-hand from our teams providing […]
Read More… from MSF welcomes Canada’s opposition to Israel’s siege in Gaza
The U.S.-Israel proposition to control the distribution of supplies under the guise of humanitarian assistance raises grave humanitarian, ethical, security and legal concerns, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Making assistance conditional on forced displacement and vetting of people are other tools in the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population. MSF […]
Read More… from Siege of Gaza: MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe
On March 18, 2025, the Israeli authorities ended a two-month ceasefire by resuming their massive and indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip and imposing a full siege, killing hundreds of people in just a few weeks. With gazainsidethewar.com, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) extensively documents this total war waged by Israeli forces since October […]
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 […]