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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).