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The huge numbers of patients with complex and serious gunshot wounds are overwhelming the healthcare system in Gaza, leaving thousands in danger of infection and disability. A slow-motion healthcare emergency is unfolding in Gaza as the cumulative needs of patients shot by the Israeli army and...

Since the start of the “March of Return” movement from 1st of April, MSF teams in Gaza have provided treatment and post-operative care to people injured by gunshots during the demonstrations. Deadly clashes has happened in Gaza strip today. As teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treat people...

Since 1st of April, MSF teams in Gaza have provided post-operative care to more than 500 people injured by gunshots during the March of Return demonstrations. The number of patients treated in our clinics over the last three weeks is more than the number we treated throughout all of 2014, when...

Since the start of the “March of Return” movement, hundreds of severely wounded patients have flocked to MSF’s three medical clinics in Gaza. The patients are mainly young men, in their twenties. They describe their desperation, the impossibility of finding a job, the extreme poverty, the feeling...

As a long-term ceasefire was agreed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, injured Palestinians from weeks of violence in the West Bank are recovering in hospital. During the last few weeks, MSF psychologists have been providing mental health support to these patients and their families in three Hospitals...

Since the start of the war, several Palestinian members of the Médecins Sans Frontières team in Gaza have taken refuge in the organisation's premises. There they feel safer, and find a little comfort through supporting each other. Distraught by their powerlessness to protect their own children and...

Yesterday’s attack on Al Shifa hospital, where nearly 2,000 people are sheltering, demonstrates how civilians have nowhere safe to go and shows the current difficulties of providing emergency aid in Gaza. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the 28 July attack on Gaza City’s Al Shifa...

22 July, 8 am: The MSF team is returning from Al Shifa hospital, in the centre of Gaza City. Throughout the night, the wounded have been streaming into the emergency department – many of them patients transferred from Al Aqsa hospital, which was bombed the previous day. “It’s going to be a busy...

Medical workers also coming under fire Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, the majority of the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians and medical workers are also coming under fire, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Women and children comprised most of the...

Virginie MATHIEU is the Head of Mission of MSF’s activities in Gaza and in the Palestinian Territories – a mission made up of five expatriate staff and 40 Palestinians. A small MSF emergency team has gained entry to the Gaza Strip and offer reinforcements. What kinds of needs are there on the...