As the sun streaks through the small window of the sterile hospital room, warm orange lines fall on to the side of 17-year-old Karam’s face, highlighting ridges of white scars across his left cheek. As he gets up slowly into sitting position at the hospital run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Amman, […]
Read More… from Gaza: The long road to recovery for war-wounded children
For over 10 months, the war in Gaza has led to the displacement of over 1.9 million people. Often forced to move within minutes of the announcement of an evacuation order by Israeli forces, many have now been displaced numerous times. In al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association (PARC) with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins […]
Read More… from Gaza: Displaced people struggling without sanitation services in Khan Younis
Large-scale military incursions launched by Israeli forces on Palestine’s West Bank, and repeated attacks by the Israeli military on health workers, ambulances and medical facilities, are severely hindering people’s ability to access medical care, says international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “There is very limited medical access in the city of Tulkarm […]
Read More… from West Bank: Access to medical care at risk as Israeli incursions gain in intensity
Following an evacuation order issued by Israeli forces and an explosion approximately 250 meters from the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza, almost 650 patients fled the hospital fearing for their lives. Consequently, and in coordination with the Ministry of Health, our teams have prematurely opened a […]
Read More… from Gaza: Al-Aqsa hospital under threat: MSF opens a field hospital in Deir al-Balah
Physical injuries, mental trauma and restricted access to medical care are an everyday reality for many Palestinians living in and around the West Bank city of Hebron, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report published today. In “Occupied lives: the risk of forcible transfer of Palestinians in Hebron”, MSF details the […]
Read More… from Hebron, West Bank: “You can’t get sick here, it’s not allowed”
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, fighting is approaching ever closer to Nasser hospital, putting it under threat and jeopardizing people’s access to medical care. This comes as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams at Nasser and Al-Aqsa hospitals have responded to 10 mass influxes of badly injured people in July alone, following bombings in […]
Relentless bombings and airstrikes by Israeli forces continue to kill hundreds of people across Gaza, while medical staff in hospitals are stretched to their limits trying to provide care to the critically injured. In July alone, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have responded to multiple mass casualty incidents at Nasser hospital, in south […]
When Hanin first sought care for her malnourished daughter in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the clock began ticking on her chances of survival. “[My] child was in a critical condition. They referred me to the hospital but there was no means of transportation,” explains Hanin. Finally, they reached the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières […]
As the European Gaza Hospital has shut down due to new evacuation orders, Nasser Hospital, the last comprehensive hospital in south Gaza, risks being overwhelmed with mass casualties and wounded patients, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Meanwhile, MSF teams working in the hospital are seeing acute shortages of medical supplies, leaving patients at […]
Since the horrifying war on Gaza began, at least 38,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, have been killed and 87,0000 others have been injured. For those who have managed to survive the relentless onslaught of bomb blasts, shelling and gunfire, staying alive has meant moving continually from place to place with […]
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