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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 […]
Read More… from ‘A fragile relief’: MSF statement on possible ceasefire in Gaza
The H2 area of Hebron, one of the most restricted areas in the West Bank, comprises about 20 per cent of the city and is emblematic of the challenges faced by Palestinians living under Israeli control. Home to approximately 7,000 Palestinians and several hundred Israeli settlers, this neighbourhood is ruled by strict movement regulations, systemic […]
Read More… from Health care under occupation: Hebron’s H2 residents are suffocating
Nasser hospital, Al Aqsa hospital and European Gaza hospital are on the verge of closure due to a lack of fuel. This situation is threatening the lives of hundreds of patients, including newborns, who depend on electricity to stay alive, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Meanwhile, MSF teams are transferring fuel to Nasser […]
Read More… from Gaza: Newborns and other patients at risk as Nasser hospital has run out of fuel
Israel´s ongoing war on Gaza has forcibly displaced over 1.9 million people, leaving families to endure winter in fragile, makeshift tents with minimal protection from the cold. Children are especially vulnerable to various health risks as temperatures are dropping, and families continue to lack proper access to essential items such as water, food, and warm […]
Read More… from Gaza: Winter puts babies at even greater risk of disease and death
Repeated Israeli military attacks on Palestinian civilians over the last 14 months, the dismantling of the health care system and other essential infrastructure, the suffocating siege, and the systematic denial of humanitarian assistance are destroying the conditions of life in Gaza, according to a new Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report, “Gaza: Life in […]
Read More… from Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction
Caroline Seguin, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), visited the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where fighting has been raging for over 45 days, following the offensive launched by the Israeli forces in early October. She looks back at the apocalyptic situation in the north and south of Gaza, where 1.7 […]
As humanitarian aid entering Gaza reaches its lowest level in months, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that patient care is critically compromised while medical conditions linked to shortages of food, water, and shelter materials are expected to surge with the onset of winter. “Shortages of critical supplies have reached such levels that we […]
We have visited Gaza at different moments since October 2023 and witnessed an amount of suffering that is beyond imagination. This includes in a zone Israel unilaterally declared as “humanitarian” while regularly attacking it. And yet our colleagues told us the situation is even worse in the north of Gaza – an area which we […]
Read More… from In Gaza, all the components of a society have been destroyed
From June to October 2024, MSF treated more than 10,000 children under 5 for upper respiratory tract infections at Nasser Hospital. After more than one year of relentless war and destruction in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing how dire living conditions, attacks in densely populated areas, poor access to food, […]