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As humanitarian aid entering Gaza reaches its lowest level in months, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warns that patient care is critically compromised while medical conditions linked to shortages of food, water, and shelter materials are expected to surge with the onset of winter.

After more than one year of relentless war and destruction in Gaza, MSF teams are witnessing how dire living conditions, attacks in densely populated areas, poor access to food, and repeated displacements are leading to severe health issues for Palestinian children, newborns, and mothers.

75 Australian artists have donated artworks to be auctioned online, with all proceeds from the sales going to the medical humanitarian response in Sudan run by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since January 2024 have been under the age of 15, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has found. 

Isabelle Defourny, president of MSF France, and Christopher Lockyear, MSF Secretary General, highlight the dire situation in north Gaza, where people have been facing one of the most vicious and violent attacks since the beginning of the war.

A series of threats by Haitian police forces against Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organisation to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the past week, police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times and directly threatened MSF staff members, including by threatening death and rape.

The conflict in Sudan—the world's largest internal displacement crisis—continues to rage, impacting millions. Dr Mohamed Bashir, MSF's former deputy medical coordinator in Sudan and now on assignment in South Sudan, shares his reflections on the far-reaching conflict as both medical humanitarian and a Sudanese person.

A densely populated area in Sumy city, northeastern Ukraine, was bombed on the evening on 17 November. MSF emergency ambulance teams provided medical assistance to injured residents.

MSF condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers. 

In the heart of Beirut, one initiative is providing a lifeline for people housed in the Al Azarieh building—once a bustling commercial centre, now a shelter for more than 2,500 people who have been displaced by Israeli bombardments and incursions.