Israeli forces pushing people from north Gaza to the south will only worsen the humanitarian

October 9, 2024

Israeli evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza, issued on 7 October, are pushing tens of thousands of people to immediately flee south as the area is targeted by airstrikes and a ground offensive. In this latest forced mass displacement,...

Israel’s all-out war on Gaza must end and its allies must stop enabling it

October 3, 2024

Jerusalem, 2 October 2024: For almost a full year now, Israel has carried out unmitigated slaughter in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Since the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023, killing up to 1,200 people and taking around 250...

Gaza: The long road to recovery for war-wounded children

September 23, 2024

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...

Jenin after nine days of military incursion

September 22, 2024

In the early morning of 28 August, Israeli forces launched a large-scale military incursion in the cities of Tulkarm, Jenin, and Tubas in Palestine. This was the most intense incursion since 2002. A total of 39 Palestinians were killed according to...

Gaza strip: Nasser hospital must be protected as the last main hospitals in middle and south Gaza struggle amid deadly July

July 30, 2024

Jerusalem, 29 July – In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, fighting is approaching ever closer to Nasser hospital, putting it under threat and jeopardising people’s access to medical care. This comes as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams at Nasser and Al-Aqsa...

A day in the life at the last remaining hospital in southern Gaza

July 24, 2024

Relentless bombings and airstrikes by Israeli forces continue to kill hundreds of people across Gaza, Palestine, while medical staff in hospitals are stretched to their limits trying to provide care to the critically injured. In July alone, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...

No end in sight: The repeated trauma of displacement for people in Gaza

July 11, 2024

Since the horrifying war on Gaza, Palestine, began, at least 38,000 Palestinians - more than half of them women and children - have been killed, and 87,000 others have been injured. For those who have managed to survive the relentless onslaught of...

Gaza: Nasser Hospital at breaking point with influx of patients and critical supply shortages

July 8, 2024

Jerusalem, 5th July 2024- 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 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)....

Statement on the accusations against MSF staff Fadi Al-Wadiya

June 28, 2024

On the evening of 26 June 2024, the Israeli authorities shared several new posts on social media about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member Fadi Al-Wadiya, who was killed by Israeli forces on 25 June, accusing him of being involved...

MSF colleague killed in Gaza City by Israeli forces

June 27, 2024

The Israeli forces have accused our Palestinian colleague Fadi Al-Wadiya, whom they killed yesterday while on his way to work at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Gaza City, of being a “significant operative” of the Islamic Jihad armed...

Gaza: “Everything is missing, even the idea of a future”

June 21, 2024

As the unrelenting horror continues in Gaza, Palestine, our teams in Rafah and the Middle Area are seeing a spectrum of mental health issues among children and adults. Since the beginning of the year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided...

The latest massacres in Gaza’s Middle Area illustrate the complete dehumanisation of Palestinians

June 12, 2024

Jerusalem, Barcelona, Brussels, Paris, 11 June 2024 – Since the beginning of June, more than 800 people have been killed and over 2,400 wounded in intense bombing and ground offensives by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, according to health...