On August 23, heavy gunfire broke out while people, including children, were gathered around one of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water-trucking distribution points in Khan Younis. In the chaos of the moment, it was not clear where these intense and consecutive bursts of gunshots were fired from. A young girl waiting for water […]
Jerome Grimaud, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza, condemns the double Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younès, in the south of the Gaza Strip. “We denounce in the strongest possible terms Israel’s horrendous attacks on the Nasser medical complex today – the only partially functioning public hospital in the south of Gaza. Israeli forces […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns Israel’s double strike on Nasser hospital
We are horrified to see the Israeli forces increasing their carnage across Gaza City as they sweep through neighbourhoods, leaving destruction in their wake. At the same time, continued strikes are forcing people, including Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff, to flee their homes once again and we are seeing displacement across Gaza […]
Israel is deliberately depriving people of water in Gaza as part of its genocidal campaign that is denying Palestinians the necessities of life, including food, water and healthcare. After 22 months of Israel destroying and restricting access to critical water infrastructure, the amount of water available in Gaza is wholly insufficient. Organizations like Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Palestine: Israeli authorities starving Palestinians of water
In the midst of an all-out war, people in Sudan are now experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years. Since the outbreak was declared by the Ministry of Health one year ago, there have been 99,700 suspected cases and more than 2,470 related deaths, as of August 11. Last week in […]
Read More… from Sudan: War fuels cholera outbreak across the region
Amid a deadly cholera outbreak, Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to reduce our teams and suspend all of our activities at Zalingei hospital in Central Darfur state, Sudan, following a violent armed assault inside the facility. MSF cannot resume operations until all parties provide clear security guarantees that staff […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF suspends activities at Zalingei hospital after grenade attack
Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international non-government organizations (INGOs) have been unable to deliver a single truck of lifesaving supplies since March 2. Instead of clearing the growing backlog of goods, Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring in […]
Read More… from Gaza: Israel threatens to ban major aid organizations as starvation deepens
Hepatitis C continues to be a silent and devastating epidemic among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been on the forefront of the response since 2020. Over the past five years, our teams at Jamtoil clinic and Hospital on the Hill have provided care to over 10,450 patients […]
With violence intensifying in South Sudan, more than 33,000 refugees have fled to northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an emergency intervention to provide essential medical care to a community facing crisis. “We saw people shooting guns,” says Blessing Halima, a refugee from Morobo County, in […]
“This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing,” a new report from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), documents the horrors witnessed by MSF staff at two clinics in Gaza that regularly received mass influxes of casualties following violence at sites run by the GHF, an Israeli-US proxy that has militarized food distribution. An analysis […]