All articles related to MSF activities in Palestine and Gaza.
Last November, Al-Shifa hospital, located in Gaza City, Palestine was brought to a standstill after the Israeli army massively bombed the area around the facility. The hospital was hit several times, then surrounded before being evacuated. The largest hospital in the Gaza Strip was gradually transformed into a camp for displaced people, and now houses […]
MSF is deeply alarmed by the decision of some countries to suspend their funding to UNRWA, which is a lifeline for millions of Palestinians in Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the region. In the Gaza strip, the humanitarian crisis has reached catastrophic levels, and any additional limitations on aid will result in more deaths […]
Maha* went to the hospital as her labor had just begun, only to be turned away because all delivery rooms were full. Discouraged, she returned to her makeshift tent, one of many in Rafah’s camps for internally displaced people, in the cold winter weather. Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, housed 300,000 Palestinians before the […]
Read More… from Rafah, southern Gaza: Displaced, pregnant, and living in a tent
Amid ongoing heavy fighting and bombing in Khan Younis, south Gaza, Palestine/OPT, vital medical services have collapsed at Nasser hospital, currently the largest functioning health facility in the enclave. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) deplores a situation in which people have been left with no options to go for treatment in case of a […]
Over the past three months, the Israeli Forces’ all-out assault on the Gaza Strip has drastically diminished the options for people to find medical care. The amount of safe space for organizations to provide healthcare to people is now virtually non-existent. Constant evacuation orders and attacks on health facilities have repeatedly forced organizations such as […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the Jan. 8 strike on an MSF shelter, which led to the death of the five-year-old daughter of an MSF staff member. Yesterday morning, a shell, resembling that from a tank, broke through the wall of the building where over 100 MSF staff […]
Escalating military activity along Lebanon’s southern border has forced thousands of people to flee border towns and seek refuge further north or in major cities. Israeli forces and Hezbollah have exchanged fire across the Israel-Lebanon border since the start of the Israel-Gaza war on Oct. 7 of 2023, but in recent weeks the violence has escalated, […]
“The situation has been bad for years here. Israeli soldiers search our houses day and night, vandalise and arrest people without any warning,” says Alma*, a Palestinian woman from Hebron, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as she describes the situation since the Israel-Gaza war erupted on Oct. […]
Read More… from Palestinians in Hebron, West Bank, live in constant fear as violence surges
As I type this in the pre-dawn dark of Al-Mawasi—the coastal strip that Israel has designated as the humanitarian zone—I can hear bombs every minute hitting Khan Younis, two miles away in the south of Gaza. The house where I’m staying intermittently shakes with overwhelming force. Earlier this week, a team of my colleagues were […]
Abbas* is one of over 6,000 Palestinians from Gaza who used to work in Israel and became refugees in the West Bank as a result of the Israel-Gaza war. Now a patient of MSF teams offering psychological support in Nablus, he describes the ordeal of being displaced and separated from his family, who remains trapped […]
Read More… from ‘Let me die with my family’: the story of a Gazan refugee in the West Bank