Strikes, raids and incursions: Seven months of relentless attacks on healthcare in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
May 16, 2024In the last seven months the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip has been systematically dismantled. According to OCHA[1], 24 hospitals in Gaza are now out of service, while 493 health workers have been killed. Each medical centre or humanitarian...
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Gaza: Yet another hospital in Gaza forced to close amid the intensified Israeli offensive in Rafah
May 14, 2024The intensification of the onslaught by the Israeli forces in Rafah, Gaza, has forced Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to stop providing lifesaving care at Rafah Indonesian Field hospital on 12 May. The 22 patients who remained in the...
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Gaza: Thousands forced to flee as Israeli military offensive intensifies and aid is blocked in Rafah
May 9, 2024Jerusalem/Barcelona/Paris/Brussels 8 May 2024 – Israeli forces have begun their offensive on Rafah and have seized control of the border, effectively cutting off lifesaving aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip. As thousands of Palestinians are forced to flee eastern Rafah following...
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Gaza: Rafah offensive will have catastrophic consequences
May 7, 2024MSF calls once again for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to spare the lives of civilians and to allow enough desperately needed aid to enter the enclave. "On May 6, Israeli forces issued an evacuation order for several blocks in...
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Gaza: Attacks on humanitarian workers amid relentless bombardment make vital assistance near impossible
May 6, 2024One month ago, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued provisional measures ordering Israel to prevent and punish acts of genocide and ensure that basic services and aid reach people in the Gaza Strip. However, the humanitarian situation for trapped...
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Gaza: MSF report denounces “silent killings” due to preventable diseases and lack of access to medical care
April 30, 2024Gaza’s healthcare system has been devastated, with men, women and children at increasing risk of acute malnutrition and with their physical and mental health deteriorating rapidly, according to a report released today by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) entitled Gaza’s...
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Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital destroyed
April 2, 2024MSF is horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility. Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north...
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Warring parties must ensure safety of staff and patients in Al-Shifa hospital
March 19, 2024Jerusalem, 18 March 2024 - As Israeli Forces announced on 18 March that they were conducting a military operation inside and around Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza, MSF staff sheltering close by said heavy fighting was taking place....
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Gaza: MSF UK Board member killed during Israeli offensive in Khan Younis
March 5, 20245 March 2024 - Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is devastated about the death of Reem Abu Lebdeh, an associate trustee of the MSF UK Board and former staff member in Gaza, whom we believe was killed sometime in...
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MSF strongly condemns Israeli attack on Al-Mawasi shelter, killing two family members of an MSF colleague and injuring six
February 22, 2024Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of two MSF staff family members during an Israeli offensive on Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza. Six other people were injured in the attack. Late on the...
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Gaza: Evacuation orders and forced displacement jeopardise continuity of care for wounded
February 21, 2024The war in Gaza has displaced some 1.5 million people to Rafah, in the southern corner of the Gaza Strip. Over the past four months, most people in Rafah have been displaced multiple times carrying what few belongings they have...
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In war-torn Gaza, displaced people forced to evacuate Nasser hospital have nowhere to go
February 15, 2024Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the decision by Israeli Forces to issue an evacuation order to thousands of displaced people sheltering inside Nasser hospital, in Khan Yunis, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza. On 13 February,...
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