🔴BREAKING:
Israel has given Al Awda Hospital just two hours to evacuate. Our staff are still treating patients.
We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza.
We are trying to protect our staff and patients.
We are horrified by the recent Israeli bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in
#Gaza
City, which was treating patients and hosting displaced Gazans. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed. This is a massacre. It is absolutely unacceptable...
We are deeply concerned about the situation in Gaza. We have lost contact with some of our Palestinian colleagues on the ground. We are particularly worried for the patients, medical staff and thousands of families taking shelter at Al Shifa hospital and other health facilities.
🔴BREAKING
Jenin, West Bank: Israeli forces just shot and killed an unarmed teenage boy inside Khalil Suleiman hospital compound. Efforts to save his life from MSF and Ministry of Health doctors were in vain...
We are devastated by the UN Security Council’s failure to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza—blocked by a solitary veto from the United States.
“By vetoing this resolution, the US stands alone in casting its vote against humanity.”
This morning, Israeli forces stopped ambulances taking discharged patients home outside Khalil Suleiman hospital. Paramedics and ambulance drivers were ordered out of the ambulances, stripped and made to kneel in the street. The patients were left in the ambulances...
“Israel’s 24-hour notice that people in Northern Gaza must leave their land, homes and hospitals is outrageous – this represents an attack on medical care and on humanity.
We have consistently seen dehumanising language and this violence is a manifestation of that.
We are outraged and strongly condemn the killing of our colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya, in an attack this morning in Gaza City.
The attack killed Fadi, along with 5 other people including 3 children, while he was cycling to work, near the MSF clinic where he was providing care.
MSF is horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility. Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options.
The scale and intensity of Israel's four-day incursion in Jenin is very alarming. Israeli forces keep obstructing access to health facilities blocking and even targeting ambulances, delaying people’s access to care.
All of this happened in full view of our team. Since 7 October, we have seen Israeli forces fire live bullets at the hospital, tear gas the hospital, block ambulances, humiliate and harass medical staff, and now – shoot and kill someone in the hospital compound...
🔴UPDATE
Clarification: Israeli forces have now postponed the demand to evacuate Al Awda Hospital in the Gaza Strip until 6am. The evacuation of patients remains complicated.
⚠️The healthcare system in
#Gaza
is facing collapse. Hospitals are overwhelmed and lacking resources.
We recently made a large donation of medical stock, including medicines and medical equipment to Al Shifa hospital, the main surgical facility in the Strip. 1/4
We are horrified by news coming from Jabalia camp where high numbers of people have reportedly been killed by an Israeli airstrike. After the attack, many wounded people arrived to Al Shifa hospital where our teams helped to provide emergency medical care...
🔴GAZA UPDATE:
At time of writing the hospital is still standing.
After spending part of the night in the street with bombs landing in close proximity, we understand that some medical staff and all patients have been able to move...
"We are nearly sure that we are alone now. No
one hears us... The problem is to be sure that we can evacuate the neonatal patients because we have
about 37 to 40 premature babies."
Dr Mohammed Obeid, surgeon at Al-Shifa hospital, shares his testimony from today⤵️
🔴UPDATE:
Since last night, we have not been able to contact our staff inside Al-Shifa hospital. Other MSF colleagues living in Gaza city have reported that the hostilities around Al-Shifa have not stopped.
We are worried for their lives.
While sheltering in our office in northern
#Gaza
, our colleagues witnessed Israeli tanks destroying clearly-marked MSF cars.
🔊 LISTEN as one of our staff describes and shows what he saw.
We have asked Israeli authorities for a formal explanation of this attack.
On 17 December, Israeli forces took control of Al Awda hospital, after besieging it for 12 days. Males over 16 years old were taken out of the hospital, stripped, bound and interrogated – six MSF staff were among them...
🔴GAZA:
🔊"Today, for the last two hours, we've been looking for drinking water. They've been shelling all day. We don't know what will happen tomorrow or where we will go."🔊
Soundbite from our colleague Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF Deputy Medical Coordinator in Gaza ⤵️
“We did what we could. Remember us.”
These are words MSF Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, who was killed in a hospital strike, wrote on a Gaza hospital whiteboard.
Four of our colleagues have been killed.
Many more have lost family members.
It
#MustStopNow
.
🔴BREAKING
Our teams are facing tear gas in Jenin:
“Israeli forces fired tear gas several times inside the Khalil Suleiman hospital.
This is unacceptable. The Emergency Room is unusable right now, it's completely filled with smoke, as is the rest of the hospital...
🔴Update:
MSF surgeon in Al-Shifa
recorded at 8:10 AM local time on 13 November 2023
#Gaza
#AlShifa
this morning, we were able to speak to a member of MSF staff still inside Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city.
“We don’t have electricity. There’s no water in the hospital.
🚨We are deeply alarmed by the decision of some countries to suspend their funding to
@UNRWA
.
Consequences these cuts will have on the ground for millions of Palestinians contradict the measures issued by the
@CIJ_ICJ
to ensure aid flows into
#Gaza
.
👇
The number of trucks allowed to deliver aid into
#Gaza
through the Rafah crossing on 21 October is totally insufficient compared to the desperate needs of the people, who have been under complete siege and relentless bombing for two weeks. 1/4
The US veto stands in contrast to the values it professes to uphold. By continuing to provide diplomatic cover for the atrocities in
#Gaza
, the US is signaling that international humanitarian law can be applied selectively - that the lives of some people matter less than others.
Nothing justifies this shocking attack on a hospital and its many patients and health workers, as well as the people who sought shelter there. Hospitals are not a target. This bloodshed must stop. Enough is enough.
Today, we are mourning the loss of one of our team members in Gaza, Mohammed Al Ahel, who was killed along with several members of his family on 6 November.
Last night, an MSF clinic in
#Gaza
where we provide trauma and burn treatment was damaged by Israeli aerial bombardment, leaving a sterilization room unusable and a waiting area damaged. No one was injured in our clinic, but people were killed by the bombing.
“There is no health system to speak of left in
#Gaza
. Israel’s military has dismantled hospital after hospital. What remains is so little in the face of such carnage.”
MSF Secretary General Chris Lockyear briefs the
@UN
Security Council. Read more 👇
“We were standing inside the hospital gate when the ambulance was directly hit in front of us. There were bloody bodies everywhere. Many were killed immediately, while we rushed others to the operating room for emergency care,” says Dr Obaid, MSF doctor at Al Shifa hospital.
🔴UPDATE:
Over the last few hours, the attacks against Al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified. Our staff at the hospital have reported a catastrophic situation inside just few hours ago .
"We were operating in the hospital, there was a strong explosion, and the ceiling fell on the operating room. This is a massacre," says Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, MSF doctor in Gaza...
Our teams are witnessing a shocking increase in Israeli attacks against civilians in Jenin, the West Bank. Attacks on healthcare have also increased dramatically and become systematic...
The situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Updates from our staff at Al-Shifa hospital⤵️
Dr Mohammad Abu Mughaiseb, Deputy Medical Coordinator, shared that "since this morning, many MSF medical staff have stopped working in supported hospitals in
#Gaza
city because...
Today across
@MSF
, we begin a campaign for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. We are demanding governments to put pressure on Israel to stop the attacks on civilians and end the siege.
It
#MustStopNow
.
"Dying under bombs in Gaza cannot be the only option left to people.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. There are no more painkillers.
Our staff tell us about wounded people screaming in pain, and people who can't get to the hospital."
- Claire Magone, General Director MSF France
“We consider Israel responsible for the situation of extreme deprivation and despair which prevails in
#Gaza
… which led to today’s tragic events.”
Our response following the news that over 100 people have been killed while waiting to receive food. 👇
🔴GAZA UPDATE
In the past 24 hrs, hospitals have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital has been hit multiple times. Our teams & patients are still inside.
Again, we urgently call to STOP ATTACKS on hospitals & for an immediate CEASEFIRE⤵️
“We see gunshot wounds now in children from quadcopters, which are basically drones with guns.
And we have been seeing an alarming number of increasing infectious diseases, including hepatitis A outbreaks.” - Dr Amber Alayyan, MSF Deputy Programme Manager for the Middle East.
We denounce the death warrant of civilians trapped in Al-Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli military.
There needs to be an urgent and unconditional ceasefire from all warring parties; humanitarian aid must be supplied in
#Gaza
now ⤵️
Our medical teams have witnessed a shocking increase in extreme violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Since 7 October, Israeli forces and settlers have reportedly killed 479 Palestinians, including 116 children, in the West Bank alone👇
At least 70 dead people and over 300 wounded, the majority of whom are women and children, have been brought to Al-Aqsa hospital since yesterday following heavy Israeli strikes in the Middle Area of the
#Gaza
strip.
Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila.
Dr Ahmad Al Sahar.
Dr Ziad Al-Tatari.
We are devastated by the killing of these three doctors - including our Dr Abu Nujaila and Dr Al Sahar - following a strike on Al-Awda hospital in
#Gaza
today.
🔴GAZA UPDATE:
As the ultimatum given to the population expires, we call on the Israeli authorities to show humanity - for safe zones to remain in the north and for regular ceasefires.
Our statement ⤵️
In the early hours of 17 November, Israeli forces surrounded hospitals across Jenin, including MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman Hospital, while the military forces were conducting incursions into a refugee camp in the city. Explosion & shooting were heard from the hospital compound.
MSF extends our condolences to
@WCKitchen
(WCK) and the families of the seven aid workers killed in an Israeli strike on 1 April. We are outraged by this deadly attack on humanitarian workers trying to provide food to people in dire need.
“We did what we could. Remember us.”
These are words MSF Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, who was killed in a hospital strike, wrote on a Gaza hospital whiteboard.
@UN
Security Council, when the guns fall silent & the scale of devastation is revealed, will you be able to say the same?
Following the escalation between Israel and Gaza, Israeli forces struck the enclave's Indonesian hospital and an ambulance in front of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. The strikes killed one nurse, one ambulance driver, injured several and damaged an oxygen station.
“I have never seen a mass casualty event like today [13 July] Every corner in the hospital was busy. Every space was occupied by the injured or bodies of the dead” says Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF deputy medical coordinator, working in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, south Gaza
🔴 Gaza:
“Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed.
As aerial bombardment of the area continues, more than a million people, many living in tents and makeshift shelters, now face a dramatic escalation in this ongoing massacre...
The brutal collective punishment in
#Gaza
must end.
🔴 Indiscriminate attacks must stop now.
🔴 Forcible displacement must stop now.
🔴 Assaults on healthcare must stop now.
🔴 Restrictions on aid and the siege must stop now.
🔴 It all
#MustStopNow
!
🔴 Gaza update:
Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, was shelled in the early hours of this morning, despite Israeli Forces having told medical staff and patients they could remain in the facility.
Thousands of displaced people were ordered to evacuate it on 13 February...🧵
“The bombing, the all-out assault, needs to stop. NOW.”
“As the president of a medical humanitarian organisation, I urge – implement an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.” -
@DrChristou
calls for an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
.
Watch: 📽️
According to MSF’s surgeon in Nasser hospital, last night Israeli forces heavily bombed the area close to the hospital with no prior evacuation order, causing patients and many of the thousands of displaced civilians, who had sought refuge in Nasser, to flee in a panic.
...but the situation remains extremely complicated and chaotic.
We call on Israel once again to cease the indiscriminate bloodshed, withdraw their ultimatum, and to protect healthcare facilities and civilians.
The US veto stands in contrast to the values it professes to uphold.
By continuing to provide diplomatic cover for the atrocities in Gaza, the US is signaling that international humanitarian law can be applied selectively - that the lives of some people matter less than others.
Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order on Nasser hospital, in southern
#Gaza
, ordering thousands of displaced people out “into an apocalyptic landscape”.
We condemn this decision and call for an immediate ceasefire.
More 👇
🔴
#Gaza
: “We are being killed here, please do something"
We urge the US, UK, Canada, Member states of the League of Arab States, Member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation and the European Union to take action to ensure a ceasefire now
On 18 November 2023, an MSF staff’s relative died and another one was injured in an attack on an MSF convoy trying to evacuate 137 people - MSF Palestinian staff members and their families. MSF condemns in the strongest terms this deliberate attack.
#Gaza
: For the first time yesterday, the number of people killed arriving to the MSF-supported Al-Aqsa hospital surpassed the number of injured people.
115 people killed in 24 hours.
The hospital is full, the morgue is full...
"What we're seeing in Zamzam camp is an absolutely catastrophic situation. We estimate at least 1 child is dying every 2 hours in the camp."
🚨 There is a malnutrition crisis occurring in North Darfur, Sudan.
An urgent response is needed now to save lives...
Following an Israeli air strike that hit a camp for displaced people tonight in Tal Al Sultan, Rafah, Gaza, dozens of wounded and more than 15 dead people were brought to the trauma stabilization point that we support.
We are alarmed by the decision of some countries to suspend funding to
@UNRWA
, which is a lifeline for millions of Palestinians.
In Gaza, the humanitarian crisis has reached catastrophic levels. Any additional limitations on aid will result in more deaths and suffering...
Today, we sent 26 tonnes of medical supplies on a World Health Organisation plane to Egypt, under the coordination of the Egyptian Red Crescent, to support the emergency medical response in Gaza...
Raids by Israeli forces in Jenin,
#WestBank
, Palestine, have left at least 8 people dead, including Dr Osayd Jabarin, a Ministry of Health surgeon from MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman hospital, who was shot on his way to work.
🔴 Amid heavy bombing in Khan Younis, vital medical services have collapsed at Nasser hospital, currently the largest functioning health facility in Gaza.
Hospitals need to remain protected spaces❗️
People and medical workers must be allowed to access and provide healthcare.
As an Israeli military operation has continued for 2 days in Jenin, West Bank, people die because they can’t access hospitals. Yesterday, a man had to carry his 13-year-old son to Khalil Suleiman hospital because Israeli armored cars blocked ambulances. The boy died soon after.
After 2 months of war, Gazans are now cornered in the south, where Israeli strikes on what was supposed to be a safe zone prove that nowhere is safe.
At Nasser hospital, the emergency department is completely full and new patients are being treated on the floor...
“They are targeting everybody. Nobody is safe. People are eating anything they can find. There is starvation here.
I fear for my kids' lives, for my life. My only message is that Palestinians have the right to be treated as human beings. The right to live.” -MSF Dr Ruba in Gaza
“Horrific violence has been wreaked over the last 10 days. The situation today in Gaza is catastrophic… Basic humanity needs to be restored in
#Gaza
.”
@DrChristou
sends a message on the Gaza-Israel war.
We are deeply concerned about our staff member who was detained at a checkpoint by Israeli forces while trying to leave Nasser hospital in
#Gaza
on 15 February. Israeli authorities confirmed he is in their custody. We call on them to treat him with dignity & ensure his wellbeing.
We are alarmed by the deteriorating lack of healthcare for pregnant women in Gaza.
Women stuck in dire conditions are giving birth in tents & public buildings. Those who manage to deliver in a hospital often return to makeshift shelters hours after undergoing a caesarean...
We strongly denounce the Israeli airstrikes that hit a camp sheltering people on 26 May in Rafah.
After the attack, 180 wounded & 28 dead were recorded at the Trauma Stabilisation Point we support in Tal al Sultan, Gaza. Patients we treated had traumatic injuries & burns👇1/3
In
#Gaza
City, our clinic came under fire this morning. Our colleagues saw that a wall was torn down and part of the building was engulfed by fire, as heavy fighting took place all around it. An Israeli tank was seen in the street.
🔊 One of our staff recounts the moment Israeli forces opened fire on a clearly-marked MSF convoy in
#Gaza
, killing two people.
We have asked the Israeli authorities for a formal explanation and we call for an independent investigation into this attack.
“Leaving Al-Aqsa hospital and our patients was a devastating decision and our last resort.
“Drone strikes, sniper fire and bombardments in the close vicinity of the hospital made the space too unsafe to work in,” says Enrico Vallaperta, MSF medical referent in Gaza...
🚨GAZA: In the past 48 hours, MSF staff report shots fired at people inside Nasser hospital.
Two people were killed, five others injured, including one nurse who was severely wounded.
Medical staff are afraid to move within and around the hospital due to fear of being shot...
Our medical teams are seeing a surge of violence and harassment against Palestinians in Hebron, the West Bank.
"We are all terrified. People think that the situation in Gaza will happen in the West Bank. Are we next? We just don’t know when..."
"The hospital is almost collapsing". Dr Abu Abed, MSF deputy medical coordinator in
#Gaza
, reports the dire situation for Gaza's hospitals and calls for an end to the bombing.
Eating pigeon food.
No diabetes medicines.
Still treating people for burns and trauma.
Some of our staff, trapped in
#Gaza
City since the start of the war, describe what life has been like over the last few months and how they have been treating patients in a pop-up clinic.
🚨 This morning in
#Gaza
, bullets were fired into one of three MSF premises located near Al-Shifa hospital and sheltering MSF staff and their families – over 100 people, including 65 children, who ran out of food last night.
MSF staff in Nasser hospital report they can feel the ground shaking and that there is a sense of panic among staff, patients and displaced people sheltering inside the building.
“We are outraged and deeply saddened by these killings… targeting a building knowing it is full of humanitarian workers and their families is unconscionable.”
Read our statement following an Israeli attack on our shelter in
#Gaza
which killed 2 people 👇
Though we cannot confirm the exact number of casualties, hundreds of people have been killed, including medical staff. Bodies are lying in the street, according to public reports. There have also been mass arrests of medical staff and other people in and around the hospital.
Israeli authorities block, delay, and restrict the entry of humanitarian aid and essential medical supplies into
#Gaza
. As they hold full control over entry and exit points into Gaza, we are struggling to bring in vital equipment including generators, oxygen concentrators and
In
#Gaza
, as Israeli forces enter Al-Shifa hospital, we call once again for the protection of medical staff, patients and displaced civilians sheltered inside the hospital. We are extremely worried for their lives.
For two bloody months, we have seen the Israeli forces' indiscriminate attacks on Gaza target Palestinian civilians and healthcare workers. Our patients and staff have been killed. Nowhere is safe.
We call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza.
It all
#MustStopNow
.
#Gaza
: After yesterday’s bombings of Al-Maghazi & Al-Bureij refugee camps, Al-Aqsa hospital reports having admitted 209 injured and 131 dead, so far. Around half were women & children. MSF doctors & staff are providing trauma wound care for the variety of war-related injuries...
🔴 Yet another hospital in Gaza has been forced to close.
As Israeli forces intensify their onslaught in Rafah, we have been forced to stop providing healthcare at Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital.
Learn more👇
Displaced women living in deplorable conditions are giving birth in plastic tents and public buildings in Gaza.
Those who manage to deliver in a hospital often return to their makeshift shelters mere hours after undergoing a caesarean...
“One of our surgeons told me about dressing the wounds of babies who had lost their legs... Babies who had never learned to walk and never will.”
Our emergency coordinator, Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial, describes the unbearable reality in Gaza 👇
Al-Awda hospital in Gaza is being forced to close following a terrifying four-day siege, the latest in a series of systematic attacks on healthcare by Israeli forces. Staff and patients were forced to leave one of the only hospitals still functioning in the north of Gaza... 1/4
Military offensives in Gaza’s Middle Area have led to recurrent mass casualties.
“How can the killing of 800+ people in one week including small children... be considered a military operation adhering to int'l humanitarian law?”
-MSF Emergency Unit Head