Statements & Opinion

Making aid conditional on forced displacement and vetting of the population is another tool in the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population. MSF firmly rejects and condemns any plan that further reduces availability of aid and subjugates it to Israeli military occupation objectives.

Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General of MSF, briefed the United Nations Security Council today on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver lifesaving aid. 

Israeli forces attacked multiple areas in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of 18 March, shattering the fragile two-month ceasefire. Hundreds of people have been killed in these attacks. Many of the causalities are children. 

The decision by the US government to temporarily freeze funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) alongside all other foreign aid for at least a 90-day period has had immediate effects on people living with HIV (PLHIV). 

Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is devastated to report the death of Bilal Okal, our colleague killed by Israeli forces in Jabalia, North Gaza, along with 10 of his family members. Bilal is the ninth MSF team member to be killed in Gaza since the escalation on 7 October 2023.

The temporary ceasefire agreement in Gaza is a relief, but it arrives more than 465 days and 46,000 lives too late. Humanitarian needs have mounted to catastrophic levels.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the violent incursion by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the emergency room of Bashair Teaching Hospital in South Khartoum on 18 December. The attackers fired weapons inside the emergency ward, directly threatened medical staff, and severely disrupted lifesaving care. MSF urgently calls on RSF to respect the neutrality of medical facilities and the safety of healthcare workers.

Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.

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. 

We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague, Dr Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopaedic surgeon. He has been detained by Israeli forces along with several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza.