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"It’s hard when you see the lifeless bodies of children"
On the evening of 17 November, a densely populated area in Sumy city, northeastern Ukraine was bombed. The explosion struck a courtyard surrounded by residential buildings, damaging 13 structures and dozens of apartments.
Sudan: 16% of war-wounded patients at south Khartoum hospital are children
Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since January 2024 have been under the age of 15, medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
In Gaza, all the components of a society have been destroyed
By Isabelle Defourny, MSF-France President, and Christopher Lockyear, MSF Secretary General.
Israeli authorities block medical evacuation of Gaza children to MSF hospital in Jordan
On 10 November, Israeli authorities blocked, without explanation, the medical evacuation of eight children and their caretakers from Gaza who are in need of medical care, including a two-year-old with leg amputations, to the MSF hospital in Jordan. We strongly denounce this decision.
MSF strengthens mobile assistance after increase of caravans in southern Mexico, calls on the authorities to provide safe migration routes
Since the end of October, MSF has redoubled providing medical care via mobile clinics in southern Mexico, in response to the significant increase in caravans of people, who move in groups to avoid violence on their way to the US border.
MSF outraged by attack on its ambulance by law enforcement and execution of patients
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers.
"While we were fleeing, we saw people being attacked in the street, there was blood and remains of bodies"
Two MSF staff members describe the terrible conditions and relentless attacks in Jabalia refugee camp and their escape from northern Gaza.
MSF opening of pediatric hospitalization services in Central Gaza
On 15 October 2024, one month after the opening of a second field hospital in Deir Al Balah, MSF teams have expanded medical activities to include pediatric hospitalization.
Alarming spike in childhood malaria admissions at MSF-supported Aweil State Hospital
An alarming number of children suffering from severe malaria have been admitted to the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported Aweil State Hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal (NBeG) state, South Sudan, over the past three months.