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 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.
— MSF International (@MSF) July 18, 2024
Meanwhile, after temporarily closing activities in Gaza City on…
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
— MSF International (@MSF) May 30, 2024
Israel’s offensive in Rafah has forced the closure of an MSF primary care centre in Al Mawasi.
We strongly denounce the Israeli airstrikes that hit a camp sheltering people on 26 May in Rafah.
— MSF International (@MSF) May 28, 2024
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…
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.
— MSF International (@MSF) April 21, 2024
“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 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
— MSF International (@MSF) March 2, 2024
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
🔴 Some 130 patients remain in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis, Gaza, according to the UN.
— MSF International (@MSF) February 20, 2024
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...
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:
— MSF International (@MSF) February 15, 2024
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...🧵
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.”
— MSF International (@MSF) January 11, 2024
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
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 International (@MSF) November 13, 2023
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.
🔴UPDATE:
— MSF International (@MSF) November 12, 2023
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.
“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