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Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them [1]

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Date: 2025-04

Although the situation in Gaza has been catastrophic for over 18 months, in the past three weeks MSF has witnessed several incidents involving the killing of humanitarian and medical workers.

The coordination of humanitarian movements with Israeli authorities, known as the Humanitarian Notification System (HNS), an already imperfect mechanism, has become more unreliable and now barely affords any guarantees of protection. Shells or bullets have hit health facilities where we work, humanitarian compounds, MSF offices and guesthouses, and other locations where humanitarian stakeholders have informed Israeli authorities of their presence. Areas near health care facilities have been subjected to strikes, fighting, and evacuation orders.

MSF teams have had to leave many facilities, while others continue operating with staff and patients trapped inside and unable to leave safely for hours at a time.

On April 7, MSF teams and patients were trapped in the MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. Hamas launched rockets nearby, endangering both patients and staff and leading to an evacuation order by Israeli forces, who also carried out strikes near the compounds of Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals. We strongly denounce these actions by the warring parties and call on them to respect and protect health care facilities, patients, and medical staff.

Since March 18, MSF has not been able to return to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, where our teams were set to begin pediatric care before they were forced to flee the field hospital, which was set up next to the compound. MSF mobile clinics in northern Gaza were suspended, and in the south, teams have been unable to return to Al-Shaboura clinic in Rafah.

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[1] Url: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-has-become-mass-grave-palestinians-and-those-helping-them

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