Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders suspends work in Gaza City, citing risk to staff

MSF claimed that the Israeli offensive in Gaza City posed an elevated risk to staff, and that airstrikes and tanks were currently less than half a mile from the organization’s facilities. 

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Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, in the central Gaza Strip September 14, 2025.
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli military offensive take shelter in tents, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 19, 2025.

Doctors Without Borders voices outrage over death of its nurse from Israeli airstrike

"We are outraged that military violence continues to kill our Palestinian colleagues," the organization said in a statement.

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A fire burns following an aerial bombardment that resulted in casualties at the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres run facility destroying the last remaining hospital and pharmacy in the northern town of Old Fangak in Fangak county, South Sudan May 3, 2025.

At least seven killed, 20 injured following bombing in South Sudan, MSF says

Medecins Sans Frontieres said that a bomb was dropped on a pharmacy in a hospital that serves over 110,000 people.

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A PERSON affiliated with Doctors Without Borders holds a sign during a vigil to honor colleagues and others killed during the Israel-Hamas War, outside the UN’s headquarters in New York City, last December. ‘What siege are they talking about?’ asks the writer.

The controversial actions of Doctors Without Borders - opinion

The organization blatantly ignores the fact that Gaza was controlled by Hamas, with UNRWA and MSF itself operating there. 

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Pope Francis says refusing aid to migrants a 'grave sin'

Pope Francis condemned the refusal to aid migrants crossing the Mediterranean and called for global migration governance based on justice and solidarity.

AUGUST 28, 2024ByREUTERS
Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience at the Vatican, August 28, 2024.

Israel-Hamas War Day 264: What is happening in Gaza, Lebanon border?

Haredi leaders condemn draft law • Doctors Without Borders claims PIJ terrorist was a 'colleague'

JUNE 26, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. June 26, 2024.

Check who you're hiring: PIJ terrorist eliminated, MSF decries killing of 'colleague'

The Israeli Air Force targeted and killed Fadi Jihad Muhammad Al-Wadiya, a key figure in Palestinian Islamic Jihad's missile program in Gaza City.

JUNE 26, 2024ByEYAL GREEN
Smoke and flames rise during an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, June 3, 2024

Cholera outbreak hits Syrian refugees sheltering in camps in Lebanon

Health organizations are struggling to contain recent outbreaks of cholera in refugee camps across the Middle East.

OCTOBER 21, 2022ByREUTERS
A girl walks outside tents at an informal camp for Syrian refugees in Qab Elias

Doctors Without Borders launches petition for fair COVID vaccine allotment

“This pandemic will not be over until it's over for everyone, everywhere,” said Doctors Without Borders who called for equitable coronavirus distribution.

JULY 17, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A medical worker talks to volunteers as they wait to receive an injection during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020.

Gunmen attack Doctors Without Borders clinic in Kabul

A Ministry of Interior statement confirmed an attack had taken place at a hospital.

MAY 12, 2020ByREUTERS
Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack in Kabul

Iran incites against Doctors Without Borders amid coronavirus crisis

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sent a team and temporary hospital unit to Iran on March 22, only to have the regime spread claims that it was spying and try to expel the aid from the country.

MARCH 24, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Members of firefighters wear protective face masks, amid fear of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they disinfect the streets, ahead of the Iranian New Year Nowruz, March 20, in Tehran, Iran March 18, 2020.

The politics of war wounds

Regrettably, we can only repair bodies.

MARCH 22, 2017ByMARCO BALDAN
Saudi artillerymen at the border with Yemen fire at Houthi positions

Finance panel erupts into debate over Physicians for Human Rights’ tax break

Smotrich proposed similar legislation, which the Knesset approved in a preliminary reading last week, and will be combined with the government bill in committee.

FEBRUARY 16, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Finance Ministry chief economist Yoel Naveh (left) speaks to the Knesset Finance Committee in Jerusalem

Organ donors compensated for NIS 1.5 million since January for expenses they incurred

Organ donors are entitled to a rebate of NIS 2,700 for travel expenses and a grant to cover the loss of work days for 40 days before and after giving the organs.

JULY 20, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Doctors perform surgery [illustrative].

Americas prescription drug issue

APRIL 25, 2015ByLAWRENCE POLYAKOV
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