War in Middle East
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Latest update : 15 July, 2024.
An unprecedented humanitarian crisis
Decades of repression and conflict, and an Israel-imposed blockade from 2007 on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, exploded on 7 October 2023 as Hamas attacked Israel on a large scale. In response, Israel has launched massive attacks on Gaza.
Since the beginning of the war, nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Over 1.9 million people have been displaced in Gaza, with many people being displaced multiple times. In Gaza, hospitals and other health facilities have been constantly under attack, leaving many not functioning. Food, water, and medicines are scarce. People are trying to survive in extremely dire circumstances.
We call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the urgent scale up of humanitarian aid. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and injured. Today, nowhere is safe in Gaza.
For all the latest news regarding the situation in Lebanon:
How is MSF responding?
From 7 October 2023 until 15 July, MSF teams in Gaza provided :
wound dressings
surgeries
Individual mental health sessions
diarrhea cases treated
People treated for physical violence
Prenatal consultations
Consultations for non-communicable diseases
What are we asking for?
- We ask world leaders and organisations to exert their influence in favour of a ceasefire that will spare the lives of Gazans and restore the flow of humanitarian aid.
- We ask Israel to lift the siege to allow increased and continuous humanitarian supplies to cross into Gaza.
- Protection for civilians and healthcare personnel and facilities on both sides, at all times; hospitals and ambulances are not targets.
- Basic guarantees of safety to enable our teams to move to provide humanitarian and medical services.
- Access to people in need of medical care and humanitarian aid, including the sick and wounded.
- People to be afforded safe access to essential supplies like food and water and health facilities.
- Increased essential humanitarian supplies like medicine, medical equipment, food, fuel and water must be allowed to enter the Gaza enclave.
- Those who wish to leave must be able to do so safely without prejudicing their future option to come back.
- In the West Bank, for Israeli authorities to put an end to the violence and forced displacements of Palestinians.
- Israeli authorities must stop implementing restrictive measures in the West Bank that impede the ability of Palestinians to access basic services, including medical care.
- Airdrops and sea routes cannot be considered viable alternatives to aid delivery by land.
We call all on States, in particular the US, UK, and allied EU Member States, to do everything in their power to influence Israel to adopt a ceasefire and to stop supporting the ongoing siege and the continuing attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure 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.
Testimonies from our teams on the ground: what a ceasefire means for the people of Gaza
For nearly a year, Israel has been engaged in a veritable massacre in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Since the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which left up to 1,200 dead and 250 hostages, Israeli forces have waged an all-out war against the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 41,500 people and injuring more than 96,000. The population has been repeatedly displaced and forced into ever-smaller areas under bombardment and in increasingly inhumane conditions.
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.
