On Dec. 12, Canada joined 153 nations and voted in favour of a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. Yet today – more than six weeks later – Israel’s relentless, indiscriminate strikes and siege on Gaza continue to unleash unfathomable levels of suffering on an entire population. […]
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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 […]
In response to a deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a vaccination campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to provide protection to women and girls of reproductive age, who are at greatest risk of death from the disease. Fatality can be as high as […]
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 […]
A new wave of fighting has gripped Myanmar over the past two months. MSF is providing medical humanitarian assistance in Shan, Kachin and Rakhine states, and we have witnessed healthcare facilities damaged or abandoned and hundreds of thousands of newly displaced people attempting to flee for safety. On Nov. 13 the conflict reignited in Rakhine […]
On Dec. 15, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched an attack on Wad Madani, Sudan, and took control of several other cities and areas in Al Jazirah state within days. Since then, more than half a million people have fled the fighting and ensuing insecurity, including about 234,000[1] internally displaced people who had previously sought […]
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 […]
At a hospital in Vinnytsia, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is running a project to rehabilitate patients injured by the war. Most of the patients have amputations and are unable to move far without additional assistance. Many of them stay in the hospital for months as they recover and undertake rehabilitation. When they are […]
Read More… from Ukraine: How MSF helps amputee patients regain the joy of life