Israel further tightens grip on the West Bank amid Iran escalation

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EU governments’ hypocrisy fuelling suffering in Gaza

The hypocrisy and inaction of the European Union and its Member States have allowed Israel to freely continue its massacre of Palestinians in Gaza with total impunity, said Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a press conference in Brussels today. MSF calls for impartial needs-based aid to be facilitated into the Gaza Strip at scale, the protection of civilians, and the immediate restoration of a sustained ceasefire; European governments must act decisively to expedite this.

Not all wounds bleed: MSF reports surge in post-traumatic stress disorder in Ukrain

While more than half of Ukraine's population is experiencing a significant deterioration in mental health due to the war, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) addresses the urgent need for psychological assistance among people affected by the war across various regions of Ukraine, focusing particularly on the most vulnerable groups: those still living near the frontline.

Lebanon : UNHCR suspension of health coverage

Due to funding cuts, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has announced that it will suspend healthcare for Syrian refugees in Lebanon from November. This affects both the assumption of hospital costs and the support of health centres for primary care. For refugees, this will have a serious impact on access to healthcare in the country.

Aid instrumentalised, health system under fire: Gaza is being deliberately asphyxiated by Israeli forces

Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC: A Persistent Emergency

Sudan : As a measles outbreak spreads in Darfur, children are in urgent need of immunisation

For a year now, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams in Darfur have been witnessing outbreaks of measles in the four Darfur states we currently work in. While massive vaccination campaigns are finally ongoing in several locations across the region, MSF insists on the need to increase efforts to catch up on the immunisation of children who have never been vaccinated.

Dozens of Palestinians massacred at US-Israel backed food distribution sites

Dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured yesterday, 1 June, as they waited for food at the newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centres in Rafah and close to the Netzarim Corridor, according to the Ministry of Health. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis. Patients told MSF they were shot from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks and Israeli soldiers on the ground.

Siege of Gaza – MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe

New MSF report denounces violence and obstruction of lifesaving response in the Central Mediterranean

The orchestrated removal of search and rescue (SAR) ships, such as the Geo Barents, from the Central Mediterranean cuts a lifeline for survivors fleeing horrendous violence in Libya. This is the conclusion of an advocacy report released today by the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The report, titled Deadly Manoeuvres: Obstruction and Violence in the Central Mediterranean is based on operational and medical data as well as survivors' testimonies collected by MSF teams on board the search and rescue (SAR) vessel Geo Barents during 2023 and 2024.

MSF report reveals stark lack of protection and assistance in South Darfur

Israel’s use of displacement orders is “psychological and physical warfare” in its campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Healthcare needs high in Khartoum, scale-up urgently needed

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