📢Case dismissed.

After 7 years of fallacious accusations, the Tribunal of Trapani in Italy dismissed all the allegations against MSF and the other search and rescue NGOs falsely accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration in the Mediterranean.

msf.org/charges-case-a… No time to celebrate. Deaths in the Mediterranean are on the rise as attacks on humanitarian vessels, restrictive policies & deterrent tactics continue. Since 2023, Italian authorities handed out 21 detentions to NGO ships. That's 460 days NGOs couldn't help people in distress at sea.

MSF extends our condolences to @WCKitchen (WCK) and the families of the seven aid workers killed in an Israeli strike on 1 April. We are outraged by this deadly attack on humanitarian workers trying to provide food to people in dire need. According to WCK, “the WCK team was travelling in a deconflicted zone in two armoured cars branded with the WCK logo.” Though Israeli forces were notified of the movement, this shows once again that deconfliction mechanisms are unreliable.

MSF is horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility. Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options. Access to Al-Shifa hospital was impossible for days, leaving patients without care. On 31 March, according to WHO, 21 patients have died since the hospital came under siege on 18 March and 107 others remain trapped inside, 4 of which are children along with 28 critical patients.

On the night of 12/13 March, the Israeli military conducted operations in Jenin, in the West Bank, #Palestine. According to medical personnel at the MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman hospital, at around 3am, people standing in the hospital courtyard were fired on. Six people near the emergency room door were wounded; two of them died as a result of severe head and chest wounds.

Samuel Johann, our project coordinator in Jenin, says: “This is merely the latest act of appalling violence at this hospital.”

🔴 Gaza update:

Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, was shelled in the early hours of this morning, despite Israeli Forces having told medical staff and patients they could remain in the facility.

Thousands of displaced people were ordered to evacuate it on 13 February...🧵 Following shelling this morning, our staff reported a chaotic situation, with an undetermined number of people killed and injured.

Since the attack, one of our colleagues remains unaccounted for...

Living conditions for Palestinians in Rafah, southern Gaza, are desperate.

People are struggling to find clean water, which can cause health risks like diarrhoea, skin diseases, dehydration & hepatitis A.

In response, our teams have started a water distribution programme..🧵 Today, our water and sanitation teams are providing an average of 110,000 litres of safe drinking water per day to around 20,000 people.

However, there is still nowhere near enough to go around. Normally, one person needs two to three litres of drinking water per day...

After days of artillery fighting in #Gaza's Middle Area and following late morning evacuation order flyers dropped by Israeli forces for neighborhoods around #AlAqsa hospital where MSF works, MSF took the difficult decision to evacuate staff and their families from the area. “It is with heavy conscience that we have to evacuate while patients, hospital staff and many people seeking safety remain in the hospital premises,” says Carolina Lopez, emergency coordinator at Al-Aqsa hospital.

🔴 Sudan:

On 19 December, armed men attacked an MSF compound, looting 2 cars & other items from our premises. Due to the security deterioration, we have suspended all medical activities in Wad Madani and evacuated our staff to safer areas of Sudan and neighbouring countries... Following the escalation of violence and RSF take over, about 300,000 people have fled the city according to the UN. Many of those who sought safety in Wad Madani are now undergoing an arduous second displacement as a result of the continuing violence...

🔴BREAKING

Jenin, West Bank: Israeli forces just shot and killed an unarmed teenage boy inside Khalil Suleiman hospital compound. Efforts to save his life from MSF and Ministry of Health doctors were in vain... This morning, Israeli forces stopped ambulances taking discharged patients home outside Khalil Suleiman hospital. Paramedics and ambulance drivers were ordered out of the ambulances, stripped and made to kneel in the street. The patients were left in the ambulances...

Ahead of the meeting between European Heads of State, we have a message for each European leader:

We implore you to do whatever is in your power to protect the lives and dignity of Palestinians trapped in Gaza and prevent further abhorrent bloodshed... Over 68 days, relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza have reportedly killed more than 18,000 people, including children, medics and journalists...

In the next 48 hours, you can either continue to issue vain calls for the respect of international law & protection of civilians...

#Gaza 10 days since we were forced to stop our support to Martyrs & Beni Shueila clinics after Israeli forces ordered people to evacuate the areas, we are seeing the complete collapse of health care services in the area, along with the rest of the healthcare system in the Strip Nearly half of the consultations we were doing in the clinics were for children under the age of 5. Our wound dressing team was caring for patients who are now left with infected wounds, some of which had worms inside upon arrival.

#Gaza: Fuel and medical supplies have reached critically low levels at Al-Aqsa hospital in the Middle Area of the Strip due to road closures, while hundreds of patients need emergency care due to the unrelenting Israeli bombardment... Al-Aqsa hospital, where MSF Palestinian and international staff are working and living, has been receiving on average 150 to 200 war-wounded patients daily since 1 December...

🚨#Gaza: This morning, the truce broke after a week. Israeli forces have called for people in some neighbourhoods in the Middle Area and Khan Younis to evacuate further south to Rafah. MSF-supported clinics Martyrs and Beni Suhaila are located in areas under the evacuation order. Nearly a million internally displaced people in the Strip have sought shelter in the south of Gaza, where they currently live in appalling conditions. Many civilians have already been displaced several times since 7 October.

In the early hours of 17 November, Israeli forces surrounded hospitals across Jenin, including MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman Hospital, while the military forces were conducting incursions into a refugee camp in the city. Explosion & shooting were heard from the hospital compound. The MSF team inside the emergency room of Khalil Suleiman Hospital was unable to receive and treat any casualties from the camp, as ambulances were blocked by Israeli forces.

🔴Update:

MSF surgeon in Al-Shifa
recorded at 8:10 AM local time on 13 November 2023

#Gaza #AlShifa this morning, we were able to speak to a member of MSF staff still inside Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city.

“We don’t have electricity. There’s no water in the hospital. There’s no food. People will die in a few hours without functioning ventilators.

In front of the main gate, there are many bodies, there are also injured patients, we can’t bring them inside.

The situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Updates from our staff at Al-Shifa hospital⤵️

Dr Mohammad Abu Mughaiseb, Deputy Medical Coordinator, shared that "since this morning, many MSF medical staff have stopped working in supported hospitals in #Gaza city because... ...they are either attacked or at risk of being attacked at any time. People are afraid to go to the hospitals"

“We were standing inside the hospital gate when the ambulance was directly hit in front of us. There were bloody bodies everywhere. Many were killed immediately, while we rushed others to the operating room for emergency care,” says Dr Obaid, MSF doctor at Al Shifa hospital. The deadly attack outside the gate of Al-Shifa hospital impacting an ambulance is horrendous. This is a lethal attack outside Gaza's main and busiest hospital, where our staff work daily to provide lifesaving medical care.

Today, we sent 26 tonnes of medical supplies on a World Health Organisation plane to Egypt, under the coordination of the Egyptian Red Crescent, to support the emergency medical response in Gaza... The medical supplies can cover the needs for 800 surgical interventions and are destined for healthcare facilities in Gaza in collaboration with the local health authorities. We have long-standing partnerships with various hospitals in the Strip...

🔴 We call for an immediate ceasefire to prevent more deaths in Gaza and allow desperately needed humanitarian supplies in... Since 27 October, the bombing by Israeli forces has intensified to a degree not seen until now: northern Gaza is being razed to the ground, while the whole Strip is being hit and civilians have no place to take shelter...

⚠️The healthcare system in #Gaza is facing collapse. Hospitals are overwhelmed and lacking resources.

We recently made a large donation of medical stock, including medicines and medical equipment to Al Shifa hospital, the main surgical facility in the Strip. 1/4 “We delivered everything we had left, all our medical supplies, to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, two days ago. We saw hundreds of people taking shelter and it was difficult to walk inside,” says Loay Harb, MSF nurse in Gaza. 2/4

In 1971, @MSF was founded on the belief that all people have the right to medical care regardless of gender, race, religion, creed, or political affiliation, and that the needs of these people outweigh national boundaries. We're looking back at 50 years of humanitarian assistance, bearing witness, and speaking out.
Join us as we journey through history with this selection of photos. #50YearsOfHumanity
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