War in Middle East

The situation in Gaza 

Despite a decline in overall violence since the October ceasefire, Palestinians in Gaza continue to be killed, injured, and forcibly displaced by Israeli forces every day. 

The violence in Gaza never stopped: only the media and political attention did. The ceasefire announced on 10 October 2025 has not stopped the attacks. Since 11 October 2025 until 10 June 2026, 981 Palestinians have been killed and 3,104 injured, according to the Ministry of Health. The word "ceasefire" has lost all meaning, and civilian lives continue to be disregarded. 

Since the ceasefire on 10 October 2025 until the end of April 2026, MSF has treated almost 50,000 cases of trauma-related injuries, including physical violence, across Gaza. Between October 2025 and May 2026, our two MSF field hospitals in Deir al-Balah received 625 children with violence-related injuries, most of which were from blasts. Israeli forces continue issuing sudden displacement orders, forcing Palestinians to flee with almost no warning, The ever-expanding "yellow line" is estimated to place at least 58.9% of Gaza under Israeli control. MSF teams continue to treat patients suffering from blast injuries, fragment wounds, and blunt trauma caused by explosions and gunshot wounds, near the line, including people who are shot by Israeli forces when approaching the shifting boundary. MSF calls on Israeli forces to halt indiscriminate attacks and forced displacement, and on all parties to ensure civilian protection.

The situation in the West Bank

As Israel continues the annexation of the West Bank, violence by Israeli forces and settlers, movement restrictions, obstructions to health care, demolitions of homes and forced displacement continue, all of which are creating serious mental health consequences for Palestinians who live there. 

In the West Bank, Israel’s policies and practices toward annexation as part of a broader plan of territorial and demographic engineering, amounting to forcible transfer, ethnic cleansing, and the overall erasure of Palestinian presence.     

Palestinians in the West Bank have been facing a significant escalation of violence both by Israeli forces and settlers since October 2023. This has escalated further in 2025 due to the ‘Iron Wall’ campaign which has displaced more than 40,000 Palestinians in northern West Bank. Israeli Forces have emptied and destroyed, in part or in whole, the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps, Israeli authorities continue to conduct mass home demolitions in the West Bank.   

Palestinians are being hunted in their homes, on their land, in their schools, while the attackers enjoy complete impunity. Since the start of this decade, not a single Israeli soldier, police officer, or settler has been charged for killing a Palestinian civilian in the occupied West Bank, despite 47 Palestinians being killed by Israeli forces or settlers in this year alone. 

This increased wave of violence takes place in a context of oppression Palestinians endure under Israeli occupation, which the International Court of Justice (ICJ), on 19 July 2024, deemed unlawful and in clear violation of international prohibitions against racial segregation and apartheid. Israeli forces continue to massively displace Palestinians in the West Bank.    

MSF calls for an immediate end to forced displacement and military aggression against Palestinians in the West Bank. This includes prolonged military operations, movement restrictions, demolitions, disproportionate use of force, cooperation with and facilitation of settler violence, and denial of essential services – including obstructions to healthcare. 

Gaza

In Gaza, our teams are offering surgical support, wound care, physiotherapy, maternity and paediatric care, general healthcare, vaccination, and mental health services as well as doing water production and distribution.

As of May 2026 MSF is running or supporting health services in more than 10 locations across north, south and central Gaza:

• MSF currently supports two public hospitals: Nasser and Al Helou;
• MSF runs one field hospital and supports another one in central Deir Al-Balah area;
• MSF supports four general healthcare centres;
• MSF works in five clinics in addition to four medical points.  

  In the month of May 2026, MSF produced 64,784m³ of drinking water and distributed 58,698 m³.  

West Bank

In Nablus and Hebron, MSF teams are providing psychosocial support, care for sexual and gender-based violence, trainings (psychological, emergency and first response). 

In Hebron we run mobile clinics providing general healthcare, SRH and mental health support. 

Jenin and Tulkarem activities have closed as of May 2026.