Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns Israel is progressively asphyxiating Gaza and continuing its genocide. The space in which people can live is vanishing, while the conditions needed to survive is being systematically destroyed through continued violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies and the destruction of healthcare and essential infrastructure. In the past […]
Read More… from Palestine: Three years on, Israel continues to asphyxiate Gaza
More than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed during the genocide in Gaza. Israel has detained hundreds more without charges. Doctors, nurses and paramedics who stayed to treat the wounded have themselves become casualties of this war. When medical staff are killed, imprisoned or disappear, it is not only healthcare workers who pay the price. […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF urges release of detained Palestinian medics in Israel
Thousands of people in Gaza, Palestine, are at heightened risk of death and severe illness, as Israeli authorities restrict the entry of engine oil and spare parts into the enclave. These supplies are essential for hospital generators, ambulances, water pumps and water trucks to remain running. The impediment of these supplies is emblematic of Israel’s […]
Read More… from Palestine: Israel blocks crucial supplies from entering Gaza
Despite a decline in overall violence since the announcement of the October ceasefire, Palestinians in Gaza continue to be killed, injured and forcibly displaced by Israeli forces. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 3,500 people have been injured since Oct. 11, 2025. In June 2026, 121 people were killed, making it the […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF staff member recounts surviving Israeli gunfire in Gaza
On July 25, once again, our medical teams in Gaza, Palestine, treated patients with devastating blast injuries caused by Israeli forces’ airstrikes. Seven airstrikes hit different areas of Gaza between 12 and 6 pm. A total of eight wounded patients were referred to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field hospital in Al Zawayda, […]
Hussam Abu Safiya, a physician and director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza, remains in solitary confinement after being detained for one and a half years. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is outraged by the treatment of healthcare workers, most of whom are being detained in dire conditions, without justification or cause. We join […]
In the West Bank, Palestine, decades of Israeli restrictions and deadly violence have shaped Palestinians’ daily lives and access to essential services. The situation has worsened since the all-out war in Gaza began in 2023. A total of 1,109 Palestinians — at least 243 of them children — have been killed by Israeli forces and […]
One year ago, the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) replaced the UN-coordinated aid distribution system and began militarized food distribution points across the Gaza Strip. The GHF — run by Israel with financial support from the U.S. and other allies — closed within six months, as continual violence at the sites killed and injured thousands. Doctors Without […]
Daily attacks continue across Gaza, with children severely affected Since the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed more than 870 people and injured more than 2,600 others, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Events of violence occur almost daily and are affecting many children. Between Oct. 10 2025 and May 11 2026, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins […]
Read More… from Palestine: Five things to know about life for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
Israel’s manufactured malnutrition crisis in Gaza had a devastating impact on pregnant and breastfeeding women, newborns and infants under six months old during periods of intense hostilities and siege such as mid-2025. This according to an analysis of medical data released by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The information was gathered at four MSF-run […]