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Choosing violence: EU policies deny safety and protection to refugees and migrants, while promoting systematic brutality

Posted on 21 February 2024 (21 February 2024) by

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report today detailing the harrowing consequences of Europe’s policy-made crisis at its borders and beyond. Drawn from first-hand accounts from medical staff and patients, over 20,000 medical, mental health and emergency consultations at EU borders, and more than 8,400 people rescued at sea, Death, despair and […]

Gaza: Evacuation orders and forced displacement jeopardize continuity of care for wounded

Posted on 21 February 2024 (18 February 2025) by

The war in Gaza has displaced some 1.5 million people to Rafah, in the southern corner of the Gaza Strip. Over the past four months, most people in Rafah have been displaced multiple times carrying what few belongings they have left. Plastic tents have been erected on every available piece of land, on the streets […]

Gaza: MSF calls for the protection and safe evacuation of patients from Nasser hospital

Posted on 20 February 2024 (18 February 2025) by

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is outraged that medical staff and patients are still trapped after Israeli forces attacked and raided Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Feb. 15. Some 130 patients and at least 15 healthcare workers are still in the hospital with no electricity or running water and limited food, according […]

In war-torn Gaza, displaced people forced to evacuate Nasser hospital have nowhere to go

Posted on 14 February 2024 (18 February 2025) by

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the decision by Israeli Forces to issue an evacuation order to thousands of displaced people sheltering inside Nasser hospital, in Khan Yunis, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza. On Feb. 13, an Israeli military bulldozer destroyed the north gate of the hospital grounds and ordered displaced […]

Escalation of violence on border area between Bangladesh and Myanmar

Posted on 13 February 2024 (13 February 2024) by

Since Feb. 4, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has treated 27 people with gunshot or shrapnel wounds. Sixteen patients were critically injured, and one patient died upon arrival. All the injuries from those 27 patients were related to renewed outbreaks of violence in the border areas between Myanmar and Bangladesh. […]

MSF: Vaccination halves mortality among people infected with Ebola

Posted on 12 February 2024 (12 February 2024) by

A study conducted by Epicentre and other research organisations confirms the importance of vaccination against Ebola during epidemics: vaccination reduces not only the risk of infection, but also the risk of death. An observational study conducted by Epicentre, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) medical research and epidemiology centre, the results of which are published […]

Syria: One year after earthquake, mental scars are still raw

Posted on 9 February 2024 (9 February 2024) by

“We live in a tent – the children are afraid of houses and buildings,” says Hind, a 36-year-old mother of five in Afrin, in northwest Syria’s Idlib province. “We are very tired.” Where can you find refuge when your home is no longer safe? How can you comfort your children when they live in fear […]

Gaza: MSF calls on the government of Israel to immediately halt offensive on Rafah

Posted on 9 February 2024 (18 February 2025) by

“Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed. As aerial bombardment of the area continues, more than a million people, many living in tents and makeshift shelters, now face a dramatic escalation in this ongoing massacre. Nowhere in Gaza is safe, and repeated forced displacements have pushed people to Rafah, […]

DRC: People and medical facilities caught in crossfire as armed violence escalates in North Kivu

Posted on 8 February 2024 (8 February 2024) by

Medical facilities supported by teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have received huge influxes of war-wounded patients as thousands of people flee the latest waves of armed clashes in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With civilians and medical facilities caught in the crossfire, MSF urgently calls on all […]

Gaza: Lack of clean water brings disease and suffering

Posted on 7 February 2024 (18 February 2025) by

The long line is visible from afar, hundreds of people of all ages, most of them holding distinctive yellow or blue 40-litre jerrycans. Some live in tents close to the water truck that attracted the crowd to this spot in Rafah, a town in the south of the Gaza Strip. Others live in shelters up […]