On Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will stage a powerful public art action near Parliament in Ottawa to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza and calls on the Canadian government to take action. From 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., up to 100 MSF staff and supporters will form a sombre Human Chain Gallery along Wellington Street. Transforming […]
Following a series of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), 99 wounded patients, including women and children, arrived at Doctors Without Border/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported health facilities across North, Central and South Darfur in Sudan on Sep. 10. Four people across the facilities were declared dead on arrival. […]
Read More… from Sudan: Darfur hospitals receive nearly 100 wounded people in one day
Gaza City is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as Israel’s latest military assault escalates, pushing people to the brink and threatening the survival of what remains of the health system. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams warn it will be impossible to force one million people – including hundreds of critically ill patients and newborn […]
Across the West Bank, Palestinians are facing forced mass displacement by Israeli forces and settlers, significantly heightening the risk of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This comes amid recent calls by Israeli authorities for the country to annex the West Bank. More than at any point in our […]
Read More… from Palestine: Risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
In the past three days, the Israeli forces have accelerated their genocidal campaign and ethnic cleansing by expanding their military activity into Gaza City. In Gaza City there are bombings during the day and night. People are terrified and unsure of where to go or what to do. We’ve seen entire neighborhoods being destroyed and […]
Read More… from Palestine: Gaza City residents trapped as Israeli military offensive intensifies
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has chosen Mohamed Javid Abdelmoneim as our new International President. He begins his three-year mandate, following his election by representatives at MSF’s highest governance body, the International General Assembly, held on June 27 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Javid is a Sudanese Iranian emergency medicine doctor, with extensive experience in […]
Read More… from Javid Abdelmoneim starts as new MSF International President
Just before midnight on Aug. 31, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan. At least 1,400 people are reported to have been killed and more than 3,000 injured. Entire villages have been reduced to rubble, with many people still trapped. Tragically, the death toll is expected to rise significantly. The disaster hit the Kunar and […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: MSF’s response to the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan
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 […]