Gaza: Displaced pregnant women at high risk amid dire conditions in Rafah
Due to the lack of humanitarian aid and attacks on health care facilities, maternal health care access has been severely disrupted in Gaza, putting bo...
War and conflict
Maternal health
Child health
Palestine
Gaza: With Nasser hospital out of commission, people in the south run out of healthcare options
Jerusalem, 26 January 2024 – Amid ongoing heavy fighting and bombing in Khan Younis, south Gaza, Palestine/OPT, vital medical services have collapsed ...
War and conflict
Sudan
Sudan: Escalating humanitarian needs after half a million people flee violence in Wad Madani
The war in Sudan has taken a new turn. Heavy fighting and the change of military dynamic has caused immeasurable suffering, displaced millions, killed...
War and conflict
Refugees
Palestine
Gaza: Evacuation orders and heavy bombing around hospitals leave few healthcare options for civilians
Jerusalem, 12 January 2024 – Over the past three months, the Israeli Forces’ all-out assault on the Gaza Strip has drastically diminished the options ...
War and conflict
Palestine
West Bank: Palestinians in Hebron live in constant fear as violence surges
“The situation has been bad for years here. Israeli soldiers search our houses day and night, vandalise and arrest people without any warning,” says A...
War and conflict
Mental health
Access to medicines
Palestine
Gaza: Doctor Without Borders condemns strike on shelter that killed staff member’s five-year-old daughter
Jerusalem, January 9, 2024 - Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the January 8 strike on...
War and conflict
Palestine
Gaza: No safe place as people are being crushed by intense, continuous bombing
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 pou...
War and conflict
Syria
Syria: 11 years of war through a Syrian Doctors Without Borders Hospital
In 2012, a year after war broke out in Syria, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a burn care unit in Atmeh, in northweste...
Surgery and trauma care
War and conflict
Refugees
Palestine
Jenin: Staggering increase in Israeli attacks against civilians and healthcare
In the past months, there has been a shocking increase in Israeli attacks against civilians and healthcare in Jenin, the West Bank.