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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“The most important thing you can do is let the world know what is happening here.” This recent plea from Dr. Abu Baker, a hospital director in the West Bank, is a familiar one for our teams at Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The simple request – to share the grave realities we […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
It’s a sunny morning in Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem, West Bank. Over twenty women are filing into a room set up by MSF staff, sitting in a circle and chatting over Arabic coffee. In the middle of the room, there is a table with gauze, tourniquet devices and charts explaining blood flow in […]