The road leading south to the city of Rafah, near Gaza’s border with Egypt, is lined with destruction. Wherever you look, the scene is unrecognizable. Most people in Gaza have been displaced multiple times, forced to leave one shelter after another in the hope that the next place would be safe. But nowhere was safe. […]
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Katrin Glatz Brubakk, a child psychotherapist and mental health activities manager for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has worked with MSF in Gaza twice, once from August to September 2024 and then from January to February 2025. She answers three questions about the state of people’s mental health in Gaza and why it is […]
While the ceasefire in Gaza was implemented on Jan. 19, after 15 months of all-out war on people trapped there, all components of society have been destroyed, making it almost uninhabitable. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are now able to reach northern Gaza — previously besieged by Israeli forces — to assess the […]
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The 15 months of war in Gaza and Israel’s accompanying blockade have left Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) physiotherapy teams struggling to provide essential care to patients who are war-wounded. We have not had the proper equipment to support people healing from severe burns, amputations and other life-altering disabilities. As a result, MSF teams […]
After 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza and the implementation of a ceasefire on Jan. 19, 2025, displaced Palestinians are attempting to return home to the southern city of Rafah. According to the United Nations, near 70 per cent of all structures in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières […]
“Since more than 400 days, we didn’t hear any kind of celebration, singing, dancing. Gaza, yesterday at night, started to celebrate, to sing, children in the streets, you can hear them singing songs.” My colleague, Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, a physician who works for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza, said these words after […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is devastated to report the death of Bilal Okal, our colleague killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, North Gaza, along with 10 of his family members. Bilal and his relatives, including his wife, seven children, his sister and his elderly mother, were killed by an Israeli airstrike in December […]
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Mustafa Hassan Abu Hamada and his family were living in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza during the recent brutal Israeli military siege, which has left the city completely destroyed and killed and injured countless civilians, including Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff. “People in front of us tried to escape at the Al-Awda junction, […]
The temporary ceasefire agreement in Gaza is a relief, but it arrives more than 465 days and 46,000 lives too late. While this temporary cessation of fighting and bombing must be both respected and long-term, this is only the beginning in addressing the immense humanitarian, psychological, and medical needs in Gaza. Israel must immediately end […]
Read More… from Temporary ceasefire in Gaza: Immense scale-up of life-saving aid must flow now
The announcement of a possible ceasefire, which has yet to be signed and implemented, is a vital respite, though it comes tragically late – after immense suffering and countless lives lost. While we are waiting for its implementation, we call for this fragile relief to be more than a pause; so that people can rebuild […]
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