Palestinian Territories – AFP The outgoing United Nations humanitarian chief warned Wednesday that a spread of Israel’s war on Gaza to Lebanon would be “potentially apocalyptic”. Martin Griffiths described Lebanon as “the flashpoint beyond all flashpoints”, especially its southern border with Israel which ha...
ATHENS (AA) – Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday warned that a Israel ground attack on Rafah in southern Gaza Strip would be “catastrophic.” “Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed. As aerial bombardment of the area continues, more than a million people, many livi...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medic on Friday described unparallelled conditions in the Gaza Strip following a visit to the besieged territory in which he witnessed oversaturated hospitals and ever-closer bombardment. Enrico Vallaperta left Gaza after spending several weeks in the war-torn Palestinian territory for c...
ANKARA (AA) – Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has accused the Israeli army of killing an unarmed Palestinian teen inside a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin. “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 […]
ANKARA (AA) – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a humanitarian healthcare organization, has said that the majority of the young Palestinians it received at Jenin Hospital in the West Bank had life-threatening bullet wounds in their abdomens and lower thighs. “Most of the patients we receive have been shot in the abdomen and legs,” Dr...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israeli attacks raged around Gaza’s biggest hospital Sunday where doctors said thousands of Palestinians were trapped in dire conditions. Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital is caught in Israel’s ground offensive aimed at “destroying Hamas”, and the compound has been repeatedly hit by...
ATHENS (AA) – The current humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip due to relentless Israeli bombardment is a “nightmare,” according to a top official of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, who said the organization is equally apprehensive about “what is coming.” “Due to the very strict siege on Gaza, most of the [&hell...
