“Life in Raqqa was terrifying. During the day we lived with the government’s airstrikes; at night there were coalition airstrikes”

“I was a paediatric doctor in Syria, married with two children. We lived in Raqqa, now known as the stronghold of ISIS. I ran a private clinic in a poor area of the city, as well as providing free healthcare to displaced people who had fled there from Homs and Aleppo.” Voices from the Field - 15 Dec 2015

Syria

Bombing & fighting threaten provision of medical care & humanitarian aid, MSF warns

n upsurge in fighting and bombing over the past week in northern Syria’s Azaz district, near the Turkish border, is jeopardising medical activities in the few hospitals and health posts that are still functioning, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), warning that it may be forced to close its own hospital in the Aleppo province. Press Release - 7 Dec 2015

Yemen

Nine wounded in Saudi-led coalition airstrike on MSF clinic in Taiz

On 2 December, three air strikes targeted a park in Taiz city’s Al Houban district, 2 km from MSF’s clinic. The MSF team immediately evacuated the clinic and informed the Saudi-led coalition that their jet planes were mounting an attack nearby. The clinic itself came under attack. The wounded, two of them with critical injuries, were transferred to Al Qaidah and Al Resalah hospitals. MSF supports both hospitals in treating war-wounded patients. Press Release - 3 Dec 2015

Yemen

MSF provides help to people affected by the cyclones in the province of Hadramaut

Two cyclones in one week hit the southeast coast of Yemen early November and did major damage. Hundreds of families have lost their homes in the provinces of Hadramaut. In Moukalla, the main city of the governorate, small houses have not withstood the tornado, torrents of water spilled into the city and destroyed bridges and infrastructures. Project Update - 1 Dec 2015

Syria

Double-tap bombing on MSF-supported hospital – hospital partially destroyed – patients under treatment died in transit

A double-tap barrel bombing on Saturday 28 November on an MSF supported hospital in a besieged zone in northern Homs governorate, Syria, has caused 7 deaths, the partial destruction of the hospital and an influx of 47 wounded patients needing to be transferred to nearby field hospitals, some of whom died en route. Project Update - 1 Dec 2015

Palestine

'What they see during the day, they dream at night.”

Occupied Minds looks at the mental health support offered to the Bedouin children of the Negev desert through the story of Mustafa. The boy is only 11 and he has already been detained for interrogation. He lives in a makeshift shed with 21 other people from his extended family. Voices from the Field - 27 Nov 2015

Yemen

“It was clear from our patients’ wounds that the snipers were shooting to kill”

With the conflict between armed groups and airstrikes escalating in Yemen, MSF doctor, Mahmood Menapal, headed for the southwestern province of Taiz for four months. In Taiz, medical staff struggle to keep hospitals running in the face of fighting, bombing raids and desperate shortages of medicine and fuel. Voices from the Field - 24 Nov 2015

Syria

MSF appalled that another supported hospital in Damascus area hit by missiles

At 2:30 pm local time on Thursday 19 November, an aerial attack was launched on Erbin, one of the besieged zones to the east of Damascus, Syria. Statement - 21 Nov 2015

Haydan streets and buildings destroyed by airstrikes.

Yemen

“The air raids continued with 10 to 15 almost every day”

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike destroyed the hospital in Haydan that MSF supports. Programme coordinator Miriam Czech told us what she saw in the town in the days following the bombing. She added that the whole region is being targeted by the coalition airstrikes. Voices from the Field - 13 Nov 2015

Yemen

Living beneath the bombs in Haydan

The MSF-supported hospital in Haydan was struck and destroyed by airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition during the night of the 26-27 October. "Before the destruction of the hospital it was a very busy place with delivery – you know, a lot of kids were born in this hospital, " says Yann Geay. Project Update - 13 Nov 2015

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“Life in Raqqa was terrifying. During the day we lived with the government’s airstrikes; at night there were coalition airstrikes”

Bombing & fighting threaten provision of medical care & humanitarian aid, MSF warns

Nine wounded in Saudi-led coalition airstrike on MSF clinic in Taiz

MSF provides help to people affected by the cyclones in the province of Hadramaut

Double-tap bombing on MSF-supported hospital – hospital partially destroyed – patients under treatment died in transit

'What they see during the day, they dream at night.”

“It was clear from our patients’ wounds that the snipers were shooting to kill”

MSF appalled that another supported hospital in Damascus area hit by missiles

“The air raids continued with 10 to 15 almost every day”

Living beneath the bombs in Haydan

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