Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed 11 civilians in November 2019. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s teams working in Dar al Salam hospital treated an 11-year-old girl who lost her entire family and was badly injured during the raids. Her story exposes the harrowing consequences of these attacks for the helpless population of the blockaded […]
Read More… from Gaza: Deaths and broken lives are the aftermath of airstrikes
Escalating conflict and insecurity in Libya are leading thousands of people to flee, taking their chances on unseaworthy boats across the Mediterranean. On December 20 2019, Ocean Viking rescued 112 people from a rubber boat 32 nautical miles off the Libyan coast, 21 of whom had survived a deadly airstrike on Tajoura detention centre […]
When one thinks of a nation going through a severe political and economic crisis, the first thing that comes to mind is probably not gold. But in Bolivar, Venezuela’s biggest state, illegal gold mining has been booming for years and the yellow metal has become a motivation for many Venezuelans to head towards the […]
Read More… from Venezuela: Fighting malaria and failing health system in Bolivar
Here’s a look at just a few of the humanitarian emergencies that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to over the last 10 years.
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Intense military offensives by the Government of Syria and its allies in southern Idlib, involving shelling, aerial bombing and ground offensives, have resulted in a massive new movement of people to escape the war zone. The northern part of Idlib, near the Turkish border, already hosted around 1.5 million vulnerable people, and according to the […]
Read More… from Northwest Syria: Despair and displacement in winter
In 2017, when the war to retake Iraqi cities from the Islamic State (IS) group was leaving scores of people dead, wounded or maimed, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened the Baghdad Medical Rehabilitation Centre (BMRC) in the Iraqi capital to provide early medical and physical rehabilitation to the men, women and children […]
Read More… from Iraq: MSF treats wounded protesters in Baghdad
As the world marks 10 years since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is paying tribute to the earthquake’s victims and highlighting the current deterioration of the medical care in the country, in a report released today. “The catastrophic earthquake killed thousands of people, displaced millions, and destroyed 60 percent of […]
Read More… from Haiti: Damage to health structures remains 10 years after earthquake