Thousands of people are trapped in Jabalia camp, north Gaza, as Israeli forces attack the area.
“Nobody is allowed to get in or out, anyone who tries is getting shot,” says Sarah Vuylsteke, MSF project coordinator. Five of our staff are trapped in the camp, fearing for their lives.
“We were staying at the Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital, but they bombed it. About 20 people were killed. I don’t know what to do, at any moment we could die. People are starving. I am afraid to stay, and I am also afraid to leave,” says Haydar, MSF driver trapped in Jabalia camp.
Israeli forces issued evacuation orders on 7 October in Jabalia camp while carrying out attacks at the same time, preventing people from leaving the area safely. Forced evacuations of homes and bombing of neighbourhoods by the Israeli forces is turning north Gaza into uninhabitable ruins.
We call on the Israeli forces to halt forced displacements and to stop the all-out war on people in Gaza. Israeli forces must also ensure the protection of civilians and hospitals and allow desperately needed humanitarian supplies to enter the north as a matter of extreme urgency.
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The scale and intensity of Israel's four-day incursion in Jenin is very alarming. Israeli forces keep obstructing access to health facilities blocking and even targeting ambulances, delaying people’s access to care.
In the MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman Hospital, which has been surrounded by Israeli Forces since the start of the incursion, electricity and water supplies are compromised. The medical team has been forced to halt dialysis operations, key for the treatment of kidney failure.
In Tulkarm, after the withdrawal of Israeli forces, our teams saw the destruction in the camps and heard disturbing reports from an MSF-trained volunteer who was beaten and interrogated by Israeli authorities.
Today, 16 July, following strikes, MSF teams responded yet again to mass casualty influx in the MSF clinic and Nasser hospital, south Gaza; and in Al Aqsa hospital, Deir El Balah. This comes just days after Nasser hospital received hundreds of injured and killed.
“The scale of loss is staggering, almost every family we encounter has lost a parent, a child, a spouse", says MSF medical team leader Javid Abdelmoneim. "For nine months, we've witnessed near constant death and trauma. No place in Gaza is spared from this bloodshed.”
Since the beginning of July, our teams have responded to four mass casualty incidents. With each attack medical staff in Gaza are put under unbearable pressure in a health system that is already stretched to its limits.
“I have never seen a mass casualty event like today [13 July] Every corner in the hospital was busy. Every space was occupied by the injured or bodies of the dead” says Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF deputy medical coordinator, working in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, south Gaza
On 13 July, Israeli strikes hit an area in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, where thousands of displaced people were sheltering. MSF teams at Nasser hospital, including our staff in the maternity ward, supported the mass casualty response of over a hundred patients.
“At one point, you had people in the hallway moaning in pain,” says MSF Amy Kit-Mei Low, MSF project medical referent. "Even though they had [wound] dressings, the dressings were oozing blood. [...] the hospital was trying to cope, but it can barely cope with normal cases.”
We are outraged and strongly condemn the killing of our colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya, in an attack this morning in Gaza City.
The attack killed Fadi, along with 5 other people including 3 children, while he was cycling to work, near the MSF clinic where he was providing care.
Fadi was a 33-year-old physiotherapist and father of three. He joined MSF in 2018. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
Fadi’s loss marks the sixth killing of an MSF staff member in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
“Killing a healthcare worker while on his way to provide vital medical care to wounded victims of the endless massacres across Gaza is beyond shocking; it’s cynical and abhorrent,” says Caroline Seguin, MSF operations manager for Palestine.
🧵An MSF nurse and her nine-year-old daughter have been seriously injured after their apartment building was hit in North Gaza last night, reportedly killing at least seven people, including three children...
Both have received medical care at Al-Ahli Arab hospital. Despite the severity of their injuries, they are now in a stable condition...
While we feel relief that our colleague and her family members are alive, we condemn yet another attack that has caused more civilian deaths, injuries and senseless suffering...
🚨Sudan Update: On Saturday, MSF and the Ministry of Health suspended all activities in South Hospital, Al Fasher, North Darfur, after RSF soldiers stormed the facility, opened fire, and looted it, including stealing an MSF ambulance.
At the time of the incursion, there were only 10 patients and a reduced medical team as MSF and Ministry of Health teams had started transferring patients and medical services to other facilities earlier this week due to intensified fighting.
Most patients and the remaining medical team, including all MSF staff, were able to flee the RSF shooting.
Due to the chaos, our team was unable to verify if there were any killed or wounded by the shooting.