Lebanon: Surviving war through community-led care

November 7, 2024

As the war in Lebanon casts a shadow of devastation for millions of people across the country, community-led initiatives and local efforts are testament to the surviving solidarity and hope among Lebanese society. In the heart of Beirut, one such...

Lebanon: “I am used to being a humanitarian worker, but now I am also a person displaced by air strikes in my own country.”

October 1, 2024

We are in a safe place, for nowMaryam, our field communications manager from Beirut, reported from a car as she fled, describing scenes of chaos in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Yesterday (Friday 27/09/2024), we heard and felt a huge...

MSF responds to Israeli bombing in Lebanon

October 1, 2024

Following the widescale Israeli bombings of multiple areas in Lebanon on Monday 23 September, we are gradually stepping up our response to the escalating humanitarian needs. MSF teams are providing general healthcare and essential relief items to displaced people. According to the Ministry...

Trapped in fear: Syrian refugees face unbearable choices in Lebanon

July 2, 2024

Names in this article have been changed to protect anonymity. “I wish for death,” says Umm Khattab, a Syrian refugee who has called a flimsy tent along the northeast border of Lebanon home for years. “We live in constant anxiety...

Syrians in Lebanon struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations

May 17, 2023

Syrian refugees in Lebanon are finding it increasingly difficult to access vital medical services due to reports of forced deportation and restrictions on their freedom of movement. Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and their partners have heard...

Migrant workers in Lebanon: healthcare under the Kafala system

May 4, 2023

In 2020, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) opened a clinic in Beirut providing migrant domestic workers with free-of-charge health consultations and specialist mental health support. Three years later, MSF teams continue to see the impact of the Kafala system...

Lebanon: Healthcare system in Lebanon disintegrates as political vacuum persists

September 2, 2021

Dwindling supplies of fuel and medicine mean that Lebanon’s healthcare system is rapidly disintegrating as the country – which has been without a government for a year now – grapples with one of the worst economic crises in the world....

Lebanon: Overlapping crises in Lebanon increase needs and worsen access to care

January 10, 2021

Since late 2019, Lebanon has been grappling with its worst economic crisis in decades, social unrest and political turmoil. On top of that, and following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of 2020, a major explosion tore through the capital, Beirut, in...

Lebanon: “I needed to make myself useful to overcome the panic”

October 10, 2020

MSF psychologist Sara Tannouri looks back at the blast that devastated her home city of Beirut, Lebanon two months ago and its impact on people’s mental wellbeing, including her own. 4 August 2020 at 6.08 pm. I was just about to...

Lebanon: “The explosion did not distinguish between its victims and neither should the aid response”

September 6, 2020

On 4 August 2020, a massive explosion caused by chemicals stored in a warehouse at the port in Beirut, Lebanon, left widespread destruction throughout the city, with thousands of people homeless. Teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been providing assistance. ...

Lebanon: MSF provides medical and mental health support to Beirut’s most affected communities

August 12, 2020

A week after the devastating blast that took place in Beirut, Lebanon on 4th August 2020, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is carrying out an emergency response to provide medical support to the people most impacted by the explosion. MSF’s activities cover three main areas...

Lebanon: MSF supporting Beirut’s health services in wake of massive blast

August 7, 2020

On 4 August 2020, a powerful blast ripped through the port warehouses near central Beirut in Lebanon, after highly explosive material that was being stored there ignited. Over 100 people have been killed and nearly 5,000 thousand injured. Teams from Doctors...