An MSF psychologist who requested to remain anonymous. While violence may not be new in the West Bank, everything intensified after Oct. 7, 2023. We’ve seen a sharp escalation: checkpoints, roadblocks and incursions by the Israeli forces and settlers have cut Palestinian towns and villages from each other. These restrictions are blocking Palestinians from accessing basic services, such as healthcare, […]
Read More… from Palestine: A mental health perspective from the West Bank
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 […]
Read More… from Palestine: A drop in the ocean. Witnessing Gaza’s medical evacuations
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 […]
Read More… from Palestine: “These evacuations are life-changing and lifesaving”
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 […]
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 […]
Read More… from Palestine: A chance at life amid genocide. A father and son’s journey from Gaza
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 […]
Read More… from Palestine: One month into Gaza ceasefire, Palestinians continue to face hardship
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 […]
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 […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF has resumed activities in Gaza City
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on governments around the world to drastically and urgently increase medical evacuations for thousands of patients who are unable to access the care they need in Gaza. These evacuations must be accompanied by a sustained effort to maintain the fragile ceasefire which has been violated multiple times […]
Read More… from Palestine: Ceasefire not the end of extreme suffering in Gaza
Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) is deeply disappointed that Dr Mohammed Obeid, a respected orthopaedic surgeon, and long-time MSF colleague, remains detained and was not released as part of the recent ceasefire agreement. We call for his immediate and unconditional release. Dr Obeid was arrested on 26 October 2024 by Israeli forces during a […]
Read More… from MSF calls for the immediate release of our detained colleague