It’s a sunny morning in Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem, West Bank. Over twenty women are filing into a room set up by MSF staff, sitting in a circle and chatting over Arabic coffee. In the middle of the room, there is a table with gauze, tourniquet devices and charts explaining blood flow in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has received confirmation that Dr Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon, has been detained by Israeli forces along with several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza during a military operation at the hospital on 26 October. We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague. […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), provides medical humanitarian care to people who have been forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict, persecution and, increasingly, climate change. Our teams provide vital medical care at every step of people’s treacherous displacement journeys, including providing surgery and trauma care, maternal health and obstetrics services, vaccination […]
The Israeli Knesset’s ban on UNRWA’s operations voted on Oct. 28 represents a devastating blow to Palestinian life. It will further undermine people’s survival prospects in Gaza and heavily impact communities in the West Bank. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces this legislation, which represents an inhumane ban on vital humanitarian aid. The Knesset’s […]
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Doctors without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is outraged by the repeated killings of our staff in Gaza and calls for an immediate halt on attacks of medical personnel, humanitarian workers and civilians. Israeli forces killed Hasan Suboh on the night of Oct. 24 after an airstrike hit his relative’s house, where he was staying in […]
Read More… from Gaza: Statement following the killing of MSF colleague Hasan Suboh
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the safety and whereabouts of Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopedic surgeon who was sheltering and working in Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza, with whom we lost contact since the afternoon of Oct. 25. The hospital and its surroundings have been subjected to intense military operations by […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF calls for safety and information on missing doctor
On Oct. 25, a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro came under attack. At least 21 people were injured, and five people, including a child, lost their lives. “Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns this Russian attack on a residential area, including the hospital where MSF ambulances refer patients. Our teams […]
Amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment and incursions across southern Lebanon, countless families have been uprooted, many seeking refuge in the coastal city of Saida. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s mobile medical teams have been visiting several locations in the southern city, offering essential primary healthcare, medication, and mental health support to those displaced by […]
Beirut is a city that holds so much of my personal past. I lived and worked many times here between 2019 and 2021, and its streets and people became deeply connected with my memories. Now, in 2024, those memories are clouded by the people’s suffering. The war has upended lives, turning schools into temporary shelters […]
“My daughter is only 14, but with all the difficulties we’ve faced, she’s reacting like an adult to the bombings,” says Ezdihar, a displaced mother in Lebanon. “She’s had to grow up quickly.” On the night of Sept. 28, Ezdihar and her family were having dinner at home in the southern suburbs of Beirut when […]
Read More… from Lebanon: Beyond Survival; Helping Children and Adults Cope with the Traumas of War