Project Update17 December 2024
A curation of testimonies and statements from our @MSF account on X, formerly Twitter, about attacks on hospitals, evacuation orders, and mass casualty events.
Social posts from 2025
🔴Update from north Gaza: Four weeks since the ceasefire was implemented in Gaza, humanitarian needs remain huge. We’re still not seeing the scale up of aid needed. While exploring longer-term solutions, we started mobile clinics in Jabalia and distributing water in Beit Lahia,… pic.twitter.com/I7rDbAf6uX
— MSF International (@MSF) February 11, 2025
🔴 Palestine: The forced displacement of people by Israeli forces in Al-Far’a refugee camp, in Tubas, West Bank, is appalling. It follows the displacement of 38,000 people in Jenin and Tulkarem.
Forced evacuations and the widespread destruction occurring in the West Bank are…— MSF International (@MSF) February 10, 2025
On Sunday, 2 February, Israeli Forces destroyed 23 buildings by carrying out several simultaneous attacks in Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank, Palestine. These massive destructions are part of a military operation launched by Israel on 21 January.
The…— MSF International (@MSF) February 3, 2025
On 8 January, 3 children from Gaza, Palestine, with severe injuries caused by Israeli airstrikes arrived at our hospital in Jordan after months of delays and rejections by the Israeli authorities. Meanwhile, 2 other patients have still been denied medical evacuation from Gaza…
— MSF International (@MSF) January 14, 2025
On 21 January, a heavy Israeli military operation was launched in Jenin city and its refugee camp, in the West Bank. According to MoH, Israeli forces killed ten Palestinians and injured 35 others, including six health workers.
— MSF International (@MSF) January 22, 2025
Social posts from 2024
According to information gathered by our teams, on 3 December, in the West Bank, Palestine, Israeli forces raided and opened fire inside the Turkish hospital in Tubas, which we collaborate with, detaining staff, intimidating patients and causing damage to the emergency room.…
— MSF International (@MSF) December 4, 2024
Yesterday evening, an Israeli airstrike hit al-Mawasi tent encampment in Khan Younis, Gaza, Palestine. Our teams treated four patients wounded in the attack: two at the recently opened emergency unit at the primary healthcare centre and two at Nasser hospital.
One patient was an…— MSF International (@MSF) December 5, 2024
This morning, amidst intense fighting in Al Mawasi, a densely populated area in southern Gaza, Palestine, 12 of our team members and their families were surrounded by bombing and heavy shootings in their homes, while more than 30 others were trapped in our office.
“Tanks were…— MSF International (@MSF) December 17, 2024
After a month of siege and systematic attacks, displaced people, including 10 of our colleagues and their families, have fled Jabalia camp to Gaza City, Palestine. Some of our colleagues have been injured, while one was killed on 10 October. Two of our staff have still not…
— MSF International (@MSF) November 7, 2024
On 13 November at around 11am, an airstrike hit the densely populated zone of Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, South Gaza, with causalities reported. MSF only had a few minutes to evacuate its healthcare clinic located around 250m away from the place of the attack.
— MSF International (@MSF) November 13, 2024
On 10 November, Israeli authorities blocked, without explanation, the medical evacuation of eight children and their caretakers from Gaza who are in need of medical care, including a two-year-old with leg amputations, to the MSF hospital in Jordan. We strongly denounce this… pic.twitter.com/x8LBQ4khBE
— MSF International (@MSF) November 14, 2024
We are outraged after an Israeli drone strike almost hit 5 of our Palestinian and international staff on their way home from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. As always, the Israeli authorities were notified about our movements and the vehicle was identifiable with an MSF logo.…
— MSF International (@MSF) November 22, 2024
In the early hours of October 7, the compound of the MSF-supported Al Aqsa hospital, Deir Al Balah, was once again hit by an Israeli strike, while another strike hit a tent in the street only a dozen metres away from the hospital. 8 people injured in these strikes were treated at…
— MSF International (@MSF) October 7, 2024
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…— MSF International (@MSF) October 11, 2024
“There is death in all types and forms in Kamal Adwan hospital and north Gaza. The bombardment does not stop. The artillery does not stop. The planes do not stop. There is heavy shelling, and the hospital is targeted too. It just looks like a movie; it does not seem real.”
Dr…— MSF International (@MSF) October 23, 2024
Early this morning, an Israeli strike hit a displacement site within the compound of the MSF-supported Al Aqsa hospital in Deir El Balah, central Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, four people were killed, and 16 were wounded and treated at the hospital.
— MSF International (@MSF) September 5, 2024
In Gaza, as the Ministry of Health and the United Nations have launched a large-scale polio vaccination campaign, our teams will be providing logistical and organisational support in five health facilities across Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, and Khan Younis, south Gaza.
— MSF International (@MSF) September 2, 2024
Yesterday, 4 August, strikes hit tents for displaced people in the compound of the MSF-supported Al-Aqsa hospital, Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health 5 people were killed and 18 injured.
— MSF International (@MSF) August 5, 2024
Yesterday morning, after more bloody attacks in Khan Younis, Nasser hospital in southern Gaza was once again overwhelmed with over 100 injured patients, according to the Ministry of Health. The hospital is under enormous strain as the killing, wounding and maiming of people…
— MSF International (@MSF) July 23, 2024
Despite challenges in getting supplies into Gaza, our teams in the Strip have recently received some medical supplies. However, the shortage of supplies remains a serious challenge in health facilities across Gaza.
Meanwhile, after temporarily closing activities in Gaza City on…— MSF International (@MSF) July 18, 2024
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.
— MSF International (@MSF) July 16, 2024
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.
— MSF International (@MSF) July 14, 2024
At least 70 dead people and over 300 wounded, the majority of whom are women and children, have been brought to Al-Aqsa hospital since yesterday following heavy Israeli strikes in the Middle Area of the #Gaza strip.
— MSF International (@MSF) June 5, 2024
Israel’s offensive in Rafah has forced the closure of an MSF primary care centre in Al Mawasi.— MSF International (@MSF) May 30, 2024
We strongly denounce the Israeli airstrikes that hit a camp sheltering people on 26 May in Rafah.
After the attack, 180 wounded & 28 dead were recorded at the Trauma Stabilisation Point we support in Tal al Sultan, Gaza. Patients we treated had traumatic injuries & burns👇1/3…— MSF International (@MSF) May 28, 2024
After a strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza on 18 May, 34 patients were admitted to nearby Al Awda hospital, and amid nearby fighting, the hospital has now run out of drinking water... 1/4
— MSF International (@MSF) May 20, 2024
New evacuation orders for parts of Rafah have forced MSF to begin referring the remaining 22 patients at the Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital to other facilities, as we can no longer guarantee their safety.
— MSF International (@MSF) May 11, 2024
🔴 On 6 May in the West Bank, Palestine, during a violent raid by Israeli forces in Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps, an MSF-supported stabilisation point was stormed... 1/3
— MSF International (@MSF) May 10, 2024
#WestBank: A 3-day incursion in Tulkarem & Nur Shams refugee camp ended the morning of 21 April.
“An MSF-trained paramedical volunteer was shot in the leg while on duty. Due to the hostilities, it took him 7 hours to reach the hospital,” Itta Helland-Hansen, MSF coordinator...— MSF International (@MSF) April 21, 2024
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. pic.twitter.com/gUe7sekL48
— MSF International (@MSF) April 1, 2024
#Gaza: At noon, March 31st 2024, an Israeli airstrike hit the yard of the Al Aqsa hospital compound where many internally displaced people are sheltering, just outside of the emergency room. People were killed and injured.
— MSF International (@MSF) March 31, 2024
#Gaza: In the evening of 27 March, an airstrike hit a greenhouse near Al-Shaboura clinic, a facility we support in Rafah. Several people reportedly were killed in the attack. No MSF staff or patients were hurt.
— MSF International (@MSF) March 28, 2024
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.
— MSF International (@MSF) March 13, 2024
🔴 #Gaza
This afternoon, 2 March, a shell struck a shed next to the main entrance of Al-Emirati hospital in Rafah, Gaza. The strike killed and injured several people, including a member of an ambulance crew, while terrifying patients who were nearby the explosion. 1/3— MSF International (@MSF) March 2, 2024
🔴 Some 130 patients remain in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, Gaza, according to the UN.
We are deeply concerned for the well-being of these patients and call for their safe evacuation. Our teams at Al-Aqsa hospital & Rafah Indonesian Field hospital are prepared to treat them...— MSF International (@MSF) February 20, 2024
Tonight Israeli forces conducted an operation in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza, where a shelter hosting MSF staff and their families was shelled.
— MSF International (@MSF) February 20, 2024
🔴 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...🧵— MSF International (@MSF) February 15, 2024
According to MSF’s surgeon in Nasser hospital, last night Israeli forces heavily bombed the area close to the hospital with no prior evacuation order, causing patients and many of the thousands of displaced civilians, who had sought refuge in Nasser, to flee in a panic.
— MSF International (@MSF) January 17, 2024
“In #Gaza, you can’t be safe anywhere.”
Leo Cans, our Head of Mission, shows us the entry and exit points of the shell which traversed a wedding hall in Rafah where MSF staff and families were sheltering. The shell killed the five-year-old daughter of one of our staff members. pic.twitter.com/1J8moRD3ED— MSF International (@MSF) January 11, 2024
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.
— MSF International (@MSF) January 6, 2024
Social posts from 2023
#Gaza: After yesterday’s bombings of Al-Maghazi & Al-Bureij refugee camps, Al-Aqsa hospital reports having admitted 209 injured and 131 dead, so far. Around half were women & children. MSF doctors & staff are providing trauma wound care for the variety of war-related injuries...
— MSF International (@MSF) December 25, 2023
On 17 December, Israeli forces took control of Al Awda hospital, after besieging it for 12 days. Males over 16 years old were taken out of the hospital, stripped, bound and interrogated – six MSF staff were among them...
— MSF International (@MSF) December 19, 2023
Earlier today, an MSF surgeon was injured inside Al-Awda hospital in north #Gaza by a shot fired from outside the facility. Our colleagues report snipers surrounding the hospital, firing on those inside. Al-Awda has been under total siege by Israeli forces since 5 December.
— MSF International (@MSF) December 12, 2023
🚨#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.
— MSF International (@MSF) December 1, 2023
I’m in #Jenin, the West Bank, #Palestine, where I was just visiting the @MSF team at the Khalil Suleiman hospital. While we were there, the Israeli army conducted an incursion on Jenin refugee camp. pic.twitter.com/RNF8JGdf8I
— Christos Christou (@DrChristou) November 28, 2023
In #Gaza City, our clinic came under fire this morning. Our colleagues saw that a wall was torn down and part of the building was engulfed by fire, as heavy fighting took place all around it. An Israeli tank was seen in the street.
— MSF International (@MSF) November 20, 2023
Yesterday, following an Israeli airstrike about 1km away from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the #Gaza Strip, where MSF teams are working, 122 patients arrived at the hospital within minutes.
— MSF International (@MSF) November 19, 2023
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.
— MSF International (@MSF) November 17, 2023
🔴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.— MSF International (@MSF) November 13, 2023
🔴UPDATE:
Since last night, we have not been able to contact our staff inside Al-Shifa hospital. Other MSF colleagues living in Gaza city have reported that the hostilities around Al-Shifa have not stopped.
We are worried for their lives.— MSF International (@MSF) November 12, 2023
“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. pic.twitter.com/MrcVAPygz5
— MSF International (@MSF) November 4, 2023
On 30 October, the MSF-supported Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital in #Gaza was reportedly hit by a projectile, causing serious damage to the third floor of the building. Fortunately, no patients were harmed as they were taking shelter on the ground floor at the time.
— MSF International (@MSF) November 1, 2023
We are horrified by news coming from Jabalia camp where high numbers of people have reportedly been killed by an Israeli airstrike. After the attack, many wounded people arrived to Al Shifa hospital where our teams helped to provide emergency medical care...
— MSF International (@MSF) October 31, 2023
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...
— MSF International (@MSF) October 29, 2023