Statements & Opinion

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. 

Large-scale military incursions launched by Israeli forces on Palestine’s West Bank, and repeated attacks by the Israeli military on health workers, ambulances and medical facilities, are severely hindering people’s ability to access medical care, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).  

Today marks 500 days since the war began in Sudan, and the beginning of the current—unprecedented—humanitarian crisis. 

More than 10 million people have been displaced, according to the UN, with evidence of ethnically motivated and sexual violence emerging. Severe acute malnutrition is being reported in several areas, and infectious diseases like cholera are spreading rapidly. 

Myanmar is facing an acute humanitarian crisis since fighting escalated at the end of October 2023. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing a near total absence of humanitarian assistance for communities who rely on it, including the Rohingya – one of the most vulnerable people groups in the world. 

After over a year of violent incidents both inside and outside the Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders-supported Turkish Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan – including threats made against the lives of MSF staff – MSF has taken the decision to evacuate its team from the hospital. 

Fadi is the sixth MSF staff member who has been killed in Gaza since 7 October and one of 500 health workers killed by the Israeli forces during the same time according to the United Nations.

Aid agencies now fear an acceleration in deaths from starvation, disease and denied medical assistance, while land and sea entry points remain effectively shut to meaningful humanitarian assistance, most desperately fuel, and attacks in areas sheltering civilians intensify. 

Following the Israeli bombing of refugee camps in Rafah, southern Gaza, Palestine, MSF urges an immediate stop to the offensive.

Our address at the National Press Club of Australia discusses our responsibilities toward those suffering in two critical humanitarian crises of our time: the wars in Gaza and Sudan.

As thousands of Palestinians are forced to flee eastern Rafah following Israel's recent evacuation orders, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for protection of civilians and the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.