War Gaza-Israel
"Thank you for your solidarity click.
It is a first strong signal of your support for the affected populations.
I invite you to find out more about what MSF is doing in the field and how you can help the people concerned."
Thomas Kauffmann
General Director
MSF Luxembourg
Last updated: 31 May 2024.
Decades of repression and conflict exploded on October 7, 2023 when Hamas attacked Israel on a massive scale. In response, Israel launched massive attacks on Gaza. The bombing campaign spread across the Middle East and south with increasing brutality.
We'd like to be able to do much more in Gaza.
However, we need basic security guarantees to be able to provide humanitarian and medical services.
We call for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire to prevent more deaths in Gaza and to allow the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid.
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MSF response
How is MSF responding in Gaza?
Some health workers in the Gaza Strip and the Occupied Palestinian Territories say they live in constant fear, stress and anxiety as they continue to treat patients. They describe the large numbers of injured people with limbs crushed and burnt by explosions that they receive on a regular basis, and the fact that they have to carry out amputations without sufficient painkillers or anaesthetics.
They denounced the critical shortage of the medical supplies they need to save lives, caused by Israel's complete siege of Gaza in the early months of the war. They fled hospitals forcibly evacuated or attacked by Israeli forces, and took the unthinkable decision to abandon patients to save their own lives.
The humanitarian situation is now catastrophic
Gaza's Silent Killings : The destruction of the healthcare system and the struggle for survival in Rafah.
Six months after since war broke out between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, Gaza's health system has been devastated, men, women and children are increasingly at risk of acute malnutrition and their physical and mental health is deteriorating rapidly, according to this report published on 29 April by MSF.
Gaza before and after 7 October
This documentary was filmed in May 2023. It illustrates some of the challenges that existed prior to the full-scale war that began on 7 October. However, it also illustrates the fact that prior to October, Gaza had a robust and functional healthcare system, including advanced surgical care, research and antimicrobial resistance management.
Today, that healthcare system no longer exists, having been systematically dismantled by bombardments, fighting, murders, abuses and arrests of healthcare professionals and patients.
Timeline of attacks on MSF staff and facilities
To date (15 May, 2024), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff and patients have been forced to leave 12 different health facilities and have suffered 26 violent incidents (an average of 3.7 per month), including air strikes damaging hospitals, tank fire on agreed shelters, ground offensives on medical centres and firing on convoys.
MSF has yet to receive any justification or admission of responsibility for the killing, maiming or dehumanisation of its staff and patients.
Our call for Gaza
In the face of this unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, and the fact that no safe haven is available to the Gazan population - including in the south of the Strip, where they have been forced to move - we have to take action.
Médecins Sans Frontières calls for:
an immediate and unconditional ceasefire;
the lifting of the siege;
and the protection of medical facilities and staff.
