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07 Oct 2024

Lebanon is experiencing the most significant escalation of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War, with close to 1,300 people killed between 16 September and 1 October, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The intense Israeli bombardments have forced more than one million people to flee their homes. 

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For almost a full year now, Israel has carried out unmitigated slaughter in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Since the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023, Israeli forces have pursued an all-out war on people in the Gaza Strip. People have been repeatedly displaced and forced into smaller and smaller areas under bombardments and increasingly inhumane conditions.

Lebanon
01 Oct 2024

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese families have been forced out of their houses and pushed on the roads, in a desperate search of a safe place following the large-scale Israeli bombardment in Lebanon over the past week. 

Lebanon
30 Sep 2024

Following the heavy airstrikes over the weekend and the past week, MSF teams in Lebanon have been working around the clock to support people in shelters with water trucking, psychologist first aid, and donations of non-food items in and around Beirut. Many shelters are now overwhelmed in what is being described as the largest wave of displacement in Lebanon’s history.

Lebanon
25 Sep 2024

In response to the Israeli bombings in Lebanon, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is responding to increasing healthcare needs and the needs of those displaced. 

malnutrition
24 Sep 2024

The results of a nutrition screening carried out by the Sudanese health authorities and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) earlier this month in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, indicate a catastrophic nutritional situation that is only getting worse.

MSF urges the UN and international stakeholders involved in negotiating broader humanitarian access to consider all options to quickly deliver food and essential supplies in the area.

Cholera
16 Sep 2024

As the conflict in Sudan continues, a cholera outbreak is sweeping across several states of central and eastern Sudan, bringing yet more risk, death and misery to people already bruised by the country’s brutal war. 

Cholera adds an additional challenge to the crisis amidst mass displacement, insecurity, and difficulties accessing medical care amid a humanitarian response that is far below what is needed. 

13 Sep 2024

In this first part of a two-part series, MSF staff at a hospital in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, talk to Shinjiro Murata, general director of MSF Japan, about the complex challenges of delivering healthcare to people in Myanmar.

MSF staff and patient
12 Sep 2024

The war in Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014, with a massive escalation in 2022, with the most intense frontline areas in the east, southeast, and northeast of Ukraine.

The lab team in Kenema
11 Sep 2024

Microbiologist Candice Lynch explains the importance of being flexible when working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the challenges she faced, and her advice for other medical scientists interested in working overseas.