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The platform "Documenting the Targeting and Destruction of the Health Sector in the Gaza Strip" presents accurate and detailed information about the Israeli assault on health during the genocidal war. This includes data on the attacks on healthcare facilities and health workers who have been killed, abducted, tortured, and maimed by Israeli forces during the genocide, and relevant statements by international organizations and healthcare institutions. These are complemented by original analysis by researchers and authors covering a range of issues in the targeting of the health sector, through which Israeli occupation forces have created a "war biosphere". Read more

لتقرير الاحصائي اليومي لعدد الشهداء والجرحى جراء العدوان الاسرائيلي المستمر لليوم ال 254 على قطاع غزة


التقرير الاحصائي اليومي لعدد الشهداء والجرحى جراء العدوان الاسرائيلي المستمر لليوم ال 254 على قطاع غزة
الاحتلال الاسرائيلي يرتكب 3 مجازر ضد العائلات في قطاع غزة وصل منها للمستشفيات 41 شهيد و 102 اصابة خلال ال 24 ساعة الماضية.

لازال عدد من الضحايا تحت الركام وفي الطرقات لا تستطيع طواقم الاسعاف والدفاع المدني الوصول اليهم
ارتفاع حصيلة العدوان الاسرائيلي الى 37337 شهيد و 85299 اصابة منذ السابع من اكتوبر الماضي.

 

وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية بغزة. 
         2024 يونيو 16

International Women Day: ‘These women know their strengths’

Noura Arafat, an MSF intercultural mediator, has lived in Nablus in Palestine’s West Bank all her life. She helps women from her community access the mental health support they need. This support is more crucial than ever since the start of the war in Gaza, which is having a devastating impact on access to basic services, such as medical and mental healthcare in the West Bank.

 

As someone with six siblings and a very tight-knit community network, family life is very important to Noura Arafat. She enjoys socialising, hiking and picnics with friends and family.

“Give Gaza Goodness” Donation Campaign by Choithrams and MSF Goes Live

Dubai’s popular supermarket chain Choithrams and 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team up to bring emergency medical care to thousands of people stuck in the ongoing conflict in West Bank and Gaza. From 20 March until 20 June, 2024, Choithrams will donate towards medical interventions for every purchase of Goodness Foods products marked with a special sticker. The products will be available at 39+ Choithrams stores in Dubai, online on Choithrams.com, and food delivery apps.

MSF statement on UN Security Council vote for Gaza ceasefire

A two-week ceasefire is not nearly enough time to respond to the overwhelming humanitarian needs.

NEW YORK, March 25, 2024—After more than five months, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) finally passed a resolution today calling for an immediate ceasefire to the conflict in Gaza during the month of Ramadan, which ends on April 9.

War in Gaza-Six months on: Report on MSF response, March 2024

Summary

Six months after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding as much as is possible to the enormous needs in the Strip. MSF teams are also responding in the West Bank, where access to healthcare has become increasingly difficult since the events of 7 October 2023.

 

MSF’s activities in Palestine before October 2023

MSF report denounces Gaza’s “silent killings” from preventable disease and lack of access to medical care

Gaza/Jerusalem/Barcelona, 29 April 2024 – Gaza’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 international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) entitled Gaza’s Silent Killings: The destruction of the healthcare system and the struggle for survival in Rafah.

 

Enduring the unthinkable: Gaza’s healthcare workers grapple with the mental health impact of an unyielding war

After over six months of relentless war, Gaza’s healthcare workers have had to face unprecedented challenges to provide medical assistance to thousands of people, while trying to survive and manage the toll the war has taken on them personally. According to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) mental health staff, the impact of working in such extreme conditions will leave scars for years to come.

Thousands forced to flee as Israeli military offensive intensifies and aid is blocked in Rafah

JERUSALEM/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 Israel's recent evacuation orders, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for protection of civilians and the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.

In Gaza “We did not have time to bury them”

On the morning of Saturday 8 June 2024, Israeli forces heavily bombed the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip, including Al-Nuseirat refugee camp. These deadly Israeli attacks reportedly killed at least 270 Palestinians and left about 700 wounded according to the local health authorities. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, along with medical staff at Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals, treated hundreds of severely injured patients, many of whom were women and children.

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

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 authorities; these horrific attacks have led to unacceptable pain and suffering and illustrate a clear disregard for Palestinian lives, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

 

Palestinian Ministry of Health (Gaza Strip)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)