Gaza: “Staff at Al-Shifa are struggling to care for patients because the needs are huge”

January 31, 2024

Last November, Al-Shifa hospital, located in Gaza City, Palestine was brought to a standstill after the Israeli army massively bombed the area around the facility. The hospital was hit several times, then surrounded before being evacuated. The largest hospital in...

With Nasser hospital out of commission, people in southern Gaza run out of healthcare options

January 26, 2024

Amid ongoing heavy fighting and bombing in Khan Younis, South Gaza, Palestine/OPT, vital medical services have collapsed at Nasser hospital, currently the largest functioning health facility in the enclave. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) deplores a situation...

Inside Gaza: “Staying alive is only a matter of luck”

December 18, 2023

Ricardo Martinez is a logistics coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who is just back from four weeks in Gaza. We know that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrific. What did you witness personally?“First of all, an...

No safe place in Gaza as people are being crushed by intense, continuous bombing

December 18, 2023

Two months into the war, Israel’s unrelenting, indiscriminate strikes on Gaza have turned the north of the Strip into a pile of rubble and are now pounding the Middle Area and the south with increasing brutality. The suffering of Palestinians...

Hospitals in south Gaza overflowing with hundreds of injured as Israeli forces step up bombardment

December 5, 2023

Since the fragile truce in the Gaza Strip, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, collapsed on 1 December, aerial and ground attacks by Israeli forces have resulted in hundreds of people killed and injured. Two hospitals supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...

Gaza: “It must all stop now.” Letter to UN Security Council

December 4, 2023

MSF International President Dr Christos Christou writes to the United Nations Security Council, asking they use their leverage and help stop the bloodshed being committed in Gaza. I am writing to you on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to implore...

MSF doctors killed in strike on Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza

November 21, 2023

Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors, Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad Al Sahar, and a third doctor working with Al Awda, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari, following a strike on Al...

MSF mourns the killing of our colleague in Gaza

November 8, 2023

Today, we are mourning the loss of one of our team members in Gaza, Mohammed Al Ahel, who was killed along with several members of his family on 6 November. Mohammed had been a laboratory technician for MSF for over...