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The coming winter poses significant health risks to the two million displaced people living in tents in Idlib province.

Jennifer is a member of our Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia recruitment team, from Perth. She has built a career with MSF over five overseas assignments including in Nigeria, Tanzania, Cambodia and Palestine.

The medical team agreed to leave the hospital only if patients are evacuated first: we don’t want to leave our patients. There are 600 inpatients, 37 babies, someone who needs an ICU, we can’t leave them.

Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.

Refugees and returnees displaced by the conflict in Sudan share stories of harrowing journeys and survival in the fast-growing camp of Wedweil, South Sudan.

Palestinians in the West Bank face death and displacement as violence escalates.

36 wounded people were received by MSF teams across the border in eastern Chad over the past weekend alone. 

Following the attacks carried out by Hamas on 7 October, around 6,000 Gazans are now displaced in the West Bank, some living in deplorable conditions. 

All Médecins Sans Frontières international staff unable to leave Gaza since 7 October have successfully crossed the Egypt border via the Rafah Crossing.

 This was the second time MSF has had to evacuate patients from the same hospital in the past year as a result of attacks on the facility.