Scarlett Wong, a clinical psychologist for Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), travelled to Gaza in March.
Part of her role was to locate and support 17,000 unaccompanied children, including "child heads of households" — the term given to young children who had to look after their siblings.
The Israeli Knesset’s preliminary bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organisation is an outrageous attack on humanitarian assistance, and an act of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
Israel’s allies, which are all members of the United Nations, must stand against this move to criminalise humanitarian assistance and ensure that #UNRWA can continue its essential work.
Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders (#MSF) International.
Vi bruker å løfte fram noe viktig på sommerkonserten som avslutter skolekorpsåret vårt.
Jeg spurte hovedkorpset hva de syntes var viktig å ta opp nå, og de svarte rett og slett "Gaza".
Da...blir det slik...
Men hvordan gjør vi dette? Vi kan ikke ta inn over oss krigens råskap og gru sammen med så små barn.. men vi kan løfte fram hjelpere som bidrar til håp i mørket. Velkommen til støttekonsert for Leger uten grenser!
25th May 7.30pm
vocal ensemble, #Eklektika, join Rita Woolhouse (Cello), Leaf Klevjer (Tanpura) & Matt Bourne (Middle Eastern Percussion) in a fusion mass that brings together #Sufi & #Gregorian chant with the words of Palestinian human rights award-winning poet, #MahmoudDarwish.
Doctors Without Borders said that the intensification of the onslaught by Israeli forces on #Rafah has forced it to stop providing lifesaving care at Rafah Indonesian Field hospital as of 12 May.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, says in a statement that it has been forced to stop providing healthcare at Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital as of May 12.
Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, MSF personnel have been forced to leave 12 different health facilities and have endured 26 violent attacks.
MSF has seen a pattern of systematic attacks against medical facilities and civilian infrastructure.
There's a company that could save an enormous amount of lives and suffering – just by reducing by a tiny bit their revenue of 24 Billion USD a year!
#Danaher makes an incredible test for #tuberculosis and other terrible diseases, which gives people a chance to survive and thrive after infection. But they mark them up by 200-400 %! Making it impossible for most people who actually need them to get them!
"With more than 1.5 million civilians crowded into this sliver of land, an Israeli military escalation threatens to turn Rafah into a graveyard. We are calling for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to prevent more civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza and enable the urgent scale-up of humanitarian aid. The survival of civilians in Gaza depends on it."
Samedi 4 mai, alors que sa nationalité britannique ne lui impose pas de #visa pour entrer en #France, un médecin de @DoctorsWithoutBorders (#MSF) et recteur de l'#UniversityofGlasgow a été refusé d'entrée de territoire français à son arrivée à l'aéroport Charles-de-Gaule en France alors qu'il venait témoigner au #Sénat de la situation humanitaire à #Gaza après avoir exercé 40 jours dans l'hopital #AlShifa.
Après qu'il lui a été confisqué, il a dû témoigner au Sénat avec son téléphone depuis l'aéroport.
Endlich! Gestern wurde in #Trapani die Entscheidung getroffen: Es wird keine Hauptverhandlung gegen die Seenotretter*innen von @IuventaCrew, #SaveTheChildren & #MSF geben. Nach fast 2 Jahre Vorverhandlungen wird die Anklage endlich fallengelassen. Staatsanwaltschaft und der Richter räumen ein, dass die Vorwürfe haltlos sind. Solidarity wins!
Das gesamte Verfahren ist eine Farce und muss dringend aufgearbeitet werden. Es wird immer deutlicher, dass der ganze Prozess politisch motiviert war. In einem Rechtsstaat darf so etwas nicht passieren! Seenotrettung ist eine Pflicht, kein Verbrechen!
Neben ziviler Seenotrettung werden auch Menschen auf der Flucht selbst häufig kriminalisiert und zu unverhältnismäßigen Haftstrafen verurteilt.
Die Prozesse von Menschen auf der Flucht finden dabei in der Regel abseits des Medienrummels statt - umso wichtiger ist es, dass wir als Zivilgesellschaft auf diese Fälle aufmerksam machen!
Why we won't accept the narrative of regrettable incidents in Gaza (Médecins Sans Frontières, 2024-04-05)
Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General of #MSF remarked:
"Since the beginning of the war, nearly 200 humanitarian workers have been killed,.. Many of these humanitarians were killed while providing care for patients or sheltering with their families."
"... this pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence."
"... That these attacks on humanitarian workers are allowed to happen is a political choice. Israel faces no political cost. Instead, its allies enable this brutality with impunity, and provide even more weapons that maim and kill civilians indiscriminately.
"The number of aid workers killed in Gaza is extraordinary, yet it is but a fraction of the total number of people killed so far. Now, nearly 33,000 men, women and children..."
On the systematic #destruction of the #health system in #Gaza. On what it means to try and save #civilians there. On learning more and more #medical professionals are being killed. On little #children starting to wish they were dead.