Palestine: MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns Israel’s strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis – the largest remaining functioning hospital in the Gaza Strip, where MSF teams work.   On March 23, Israeli forces targeted the hospital’s inpatient surgical department, killing two people, according to the Ministry of Health. MSF teams confirmed there were […]

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Palestine: Amid shattered ceasefire, water becomes another weapon of war

In the rubble of a shattered ceasefire and more deaths, another tactic of war is playing out as Israeli authorities essentially block access to water by cutting electricity and fuel from entering Gaza, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As Israeli forces continue to rain down bombs on the Strip, MSF calls for the […]

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Palestine: Mass displacements in West Bank take dramatic toll

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that tens of thousands of displaced people in the northern West Bank, Palestine, are without proper shelter, essential services and access to healthcare.  Following the January 2025 ceasefire in Gaza, Israel launched the “Iron Wall” military operation in the occupied West Bank, forcibly displacing thousands and leaving them […]

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Maternity care in Afghanistan: “What this all-women team is achieving is phenomenal”

Despite the challenges facing female healthcare workers in Afghanistan, in Lashkar Gah, MSF’s all-women maternity team are helping thousands of women to give birth safely every year. Obstetrician-gynecologist Pauline Lynch shares the story of one woman… They arrived on a motorbike. It’s hard to imagine the journey, because Jamila* was heavily pregnant and having repeated […]

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MSF to Canada’s political leaders: “Stand up for humanity”

On April 28, Canadians will vote in a federal election that is taking place in a period of major global upheaval. The Members of Parliament that Canadians will elect will decide how Canada responds to a world experiencing alarming levels of conflict and crisis, and where hundreds of millions of people’s lives, safety and dignity […]

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MSF calls for sustained investments to address tuberculosis in children

Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all countries and international donors to prioritize and ensure sustained investments for diagnosing, treating and preventing tuberculosis (TB) for all – especially children, who remain the most at risk.    Every three minutes, a child dies of TB. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that […]

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Palestine: MSF mourns the killing of tenth colleague in Gaza

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is shocked and saddened by the killing of our colleague Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal by an Israeli airstrike on his apartment building in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza, Palestine. Along with hundreds of others across the Gaza Strip, Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal was killed in the early morning of […]

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Bangladesh: MSF warns of acute malnutrition crisis among Rohingya refugees

As the ripple effect of cuts in the humanitarian sector continue to reverberate around the world, more than one million Rohingya refugees remain confined to camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.   Last week the World Food Programme made an alarming announcement that they plan to cut food rations in half due to funding shortfalls. We’re talking […]

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Palestine: MSF teams respond to “ruthless attacks” by Israeli forces in Gaza

In the early hours of March 18, renewed attacks on parts of Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, hundreds of people have been killed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the attacks launched by Israel on March 18 on the people of Gaza, shattering the nearly two-month-old ceasefire. Out of the […]

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Haiti: MSF vehicles shot during hospital evacuation amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemn the intentional opening of fire on four clearly marked MSF vehicles while we were seeking safety for staff amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  Violence close to the Turgeau emergency centre has forced MSF to suspend again activities in the hospital on March 15 and evacuate our […]

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