Category: Palestine

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 […]

Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza

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 […]

Read More… from Palestine: Amid shattered ceasefire, water becomes another weapon of war

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 […]

Read More… from Palestine: MSF mourns the killing of tenth colleague 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 […]

Read More… from Palestine: MSF teams respond to “ruthless attacks” by Israeli forces in Gaza

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza, which is depriving people of basic services and critical supplies, including access to water by cutting electricity supply on March 9.  Israeli authorities have instrumentalized humanitarian needs by using them as a bargaining chip, such as cutting the electricity supply to Gaza […]

Read More… from Palestine: Israeli authorities must stop collective punishment and use of aid as a tool of war in Gaza

Sarah Vulstyeke is a project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She recently returned from the Gaza Strip coordinating operations with an MSF team in northern Gaza, where MSF runs mobile clinics to provide medical assistance to people through general consultations, treatment of non-communicable diseases, dressings and health promotion. During the first and […]

Read More… from Gaza: MSF project coordinator Sarah Vulstyeke on destruction, people’s immense needs in the north 

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. […]

Read More… from Crossing the border: Palestinians’ journeys of war and survival

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 […]

Read More… from “I really worry about what will happen to people’s mental health in Gaza. The ceasefire needs to hold.”