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Palestine: Patients in Nasser hospital in urgent need of medical evacuation

Posted on 19 December 2025 (19 December 2025) by Melanie

Five patients from the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported Nasser hospital share their stories while awaiting medical evacuation from Gaza. Two mothers speak about their children’s critical conditions and three adults describe their in need of lifesaving treatment abroad. Their testimonies document the struggle of Palestinians who can no longer access essential medical care […]

2025: A year in pictures

Posted on 18 December 2025 (19 December 2025) by Melanie

In 2025, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams continued to respond to some of the world’s most urgent crises. Wars in Gaza and Ukraine dragged on, violence in Sudan escalated, and millions of people were displaced amid growing barriers to migration and shrinking humanitarian support.  These overlapping emergencies left countless communities without the assistance they desperately need, while insecurity and funding gaps […]

Palestine: A drop in the ocean. Witnessing Gaza’s medical evacuations

Posted on 9 December 2025 (9 December 2025) by Melanie

As Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor, I’ve been part of 15 medical evacuations for patients coming from Gaza through Egypt and Jordan. In partnership with Swiss and EU authorities, MSF has participated in medical evacuations to Switzerland, Ireland, the UK and Spain. The official number of patients registered by the World Health Organization for medical evacuations is 16,500, but this is only a drop in the ocean. Many more patients […]

Palestine: “These evacuations are life-changing and lifesaving”

Posted on 8 December 2025 (8 December 2025) by Melanie

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the Swiss government’s recent medical evacuations from Gaza and urges resourceful nations to scale up their efforts to support as many patients as possible. Following two years of intense violence in Gaza, the healthcare system is destroyed. Thousands of people are suffering from complex trauma injuries caused by bullets and bombs, or from life-threatening […]

Palestine: MSF teams treat Palestinians critically wounded by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

Posted on 21 November 2025 (21 November 2025) by Melanie

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces yet more bloodshed in Gaza, as our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and many more injured. Since Wednesday, our teams have treated both women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and head. “At around […]

Palestine: A chance at life amid genocide. A father and son’s journey from Gaza

Posted on 19 November 2025 (25 November 2025) by Melanie

Over the past two years, Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has caused unimaginable loss and devastation. People in Gaza, including our colleagues, have been killed, injured, starved, besieged and displaced. Our colleague Mohammad Al Hawajri, who worked in Gaza as an operating room nurse, recounts how he and his family tried to find safety that […]

Palestine: One month into Gaza ceasefire, Palestinians continue to face hardship

Posted on 12 November 2025 (14 November 2025) by Melanie

One month into this fragile ceasefire, the situation in Gaza remains desperate. Palestinians are still being killed and injured by Israeli forces almost every day in the areas close to the yellow line, behind which Israel maintains control. Palestinians often risk their lives by going back to look for their houses, as this line is still not always clearly marked. To make […]

MSF statement on Canada’s 2025 Federal Budget: Cuts to global aid will cost lives

Posted on 5 November 2025 (7 November 2025) by Melanie

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned by the Canadian government’s plan to reduce funding for international assistance and global health programs – especially at a time when more people than ever need urgent medical and humanitarian support. In our programs around the world, we’ve already seen first-hand how other recent cuts to […]

Palestine: Dire living conditions in Gaza continue to impact people’s health despite the ceasefire

Posted on 24 October 2025 (24 October 2025) by Melanie

More than one million people are still being forced to survive on a tiny patch of land in southern Gaza, where conditions are dire and dangerous to their health. Along with the massive destruction of civilian infrastructure and the health system by Israeli forces, this displacement is creating the perfect storm for disease and […]

Palestine: MSF has resumed activities in Gaza City

Posted on 23 October 2025 (23 October 2025) by Melanie

After careful monitoring and assessment, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has partially resumed our activities in Gaza City, after being forced to leave on Sep. 24, 2025, amid the intensified Israeli offensive. On Oct. 15, MSF reopened our wound care clinic in Gaza City. Since then, our teams have received more than 640 patients — the majority of […]