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MSF's Cité Soleil emergency hospital remains the only medical facility capable of treating patients in the area.
 

As a medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) witnesses firsthand the impacts of climate change, and how they threaten people’s health.  

On 18 November 2023, an MSF staff's relative died and another one was injured in an attack on an MSF convoy trying to evacuate 137 people - MSF Palestinian staff members and their families.

 

Thousands of civilians are at risk of dying, including over a hundred of MSF staff and their families. 

 

Intense unabated fighting and shelling in Gaza city continue to prevent thousands of people from safely leaving the area.

 

 

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

Dr Lisa Searle is a general practitioner from Tasmania who has built a career with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), completing 10 assignments since 2010.

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.

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.

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.