All articles related to MSF activities in Palestine and Gaza.
The number of trucks allowed to deliver aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing today, October 21, is totally insufficient compared to the desperate needs of the people, who have been under complete siege and relentless bombing for two weeks. Prior to the siege, hundreds of trucks with supplies entered Gaza every day as the […]
Read More… from Ensuring regular aid delivery to Gaza is vital
Loay Harb is a nurse who has been working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for the past 15 years in Gaza at our burns clinic. He is currently taking shelter in his home next to the MSF office in Gaza City with his family and children. Today, Loay, like many others, is without […]
The few medical facilities still operating in northern Gaza are under unimaginable duress. Many medical staff have been forced to flee to the south, as the Israeli strikes are relentless. The remaining staff have to cope with restricted access to electricity and water, in a context of siege. An update from Guillemette Thomas, Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Gaza: “The wounded are in danger of dying in the next few hours”
We are horrified by the recent bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which was treating patients and hosting displaced Gazans. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed. It is absolutely unacceptable. “We were operating in the hospital, there was a strong explosion, and the ceiling fell on the operating room. This is a […]
Read More… from MSF condemns bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza
Mass killing of civilians is sickening and must be condemned in all possible terms. Horrific violence has been wreaked over the last 10 days. Thousands of men, women and children have been killed in Israel. Thousands of men, women and children have been killed in Palestine. The situation today in Gaza is catastrophic. Hospitals and […]
Read More… from MSF: Unconditional humanity needs to be restored in Gaza
Despite Israeli announcements suggesting that there are safe areas for the population trapped in the Gaza Strip, they are in fact exposed to bombardment throughout all the territory, including in the south, where tens of thousands of people have fled following the ultimatum. As the Israeli army has been bombarding the Gaza Strip without restraint […]
Israel’s 24-hour notice that people in Northern Gaza must leave their land, homes and hospitals is outrageous – this represents an attack on medical care and on humanity. We have consistently seen dehumanising language and this violence is a manifestation of that. We are talking about more than a million human beings. ‘Unprecedented’ doesn’t even […]
Read More… from MSF states Israeli order to evacuate northern Gaza ‘outrageous’
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is donating medical supplies to hospitals and health facilities in Gaza to respond to medical needs in the midst of the conflict that began yesterday. “Health facilities need this equipment because of the many injured patients,” said Ayman Al-Djaroucha, MSF deputy coordinator in Gaza. “Hospitals are overcrowded with injured […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF provides medical care and donates supplies amidst conflict
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians perpetrated by Hamas, and by the massive attacks on Gaza now being pursued by Israel. MSF calls for an immediate cessation to the indiscriminate bloodshed, the establishment of safe spaces and safe passage for people to reach them as a […]
Read More… from MSF: Indiscriminate violence and the collective punishment of Gaza must cease
First-person account by Léo Cans, MSF country director, Palestine (based in Jerusalem) “The situation in Gaza is catastrophic; the hospitals are overwhelmed. The number of wounded is extremely high – there is a constant influx into all the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The medical teams are exhausted, working around the clock to treat the […]