NASSER HOSPITAL

Nasser Hospital is one of the last remaining partially-functional hospitals in southern Gaza, with one of the only functional maternity wards in the area. MSF teams at the hospital are running a trauma/orthopedics/burns unit and two operating rooms, an outpatient department for wound care and physiotherapy, and surgery services for trauma and burn patients. Our teams are also supporting the emergency department and provide mental health services. In February, MSF teams relaunched the use of 3D-printed masks for patients with severe facial burns.

MSF teams also support pediatric and maternal care at Nasser Hospital, including their respective emergency rooms, the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), gynecology and obstetrics departments, and outpatient department for specialist consultations on delivery and  pre- and post-partum care. Our teams also opened an inpatient therapeutic feeding center for malnourished children, and provide mental health care and health promotion activities.

KHAN YOUNIS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER

MSF teams provide outpatient consultations, vaccination, mental health care, malnutrition treatment through an outpatient therapeutic feeding center, sexual and reproductive health care, wound care, physiotherapy, and health promotion. In November 2024, MSF expanded care at the facility with lightweight emergency services focused on stabilizing and referring complex cases, while managing simpler cases. 

AL-ATTAR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER

The clinic provides general and pediatric consultations for acute and chronic conditions; vaccination; emergency and wound care; family planning; pre- and postnatal care; psychosocial and mental health care; health promotion; malnutrition screening; and outpatient treatment for children, infants, and pregnant or lactating women with severe or moderate malnutrition. There is also a 24-hour emergency service to stabilize and refer patients.

Since March 18, MSF teams have had to reduce activities at Al-Attar, excluding the emergency room, due to the security situation restricting movements. 

AL-QARARA SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINIC

MSF supports PalMed, a diaspora-led Palestinian medical organization, with medications, incentives, and running costs, in providing sexual and reproductive health care and general medical consultations (including for wound care, skin infections, non-communicable diseases, and more). Medical activities at Al-Qarara expanded in November 2024 to incorporate screening for malnutrition and an outpatient therapeutic feeding program for children under 5 years old and pregnant or lactating women. 

AL-MAWASI PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CLINIC

After a brief suspension of activities due to the advancement of Israeli troops in the Al-Mawasi area in March, MSF teams have returned to the clinic. Our teams there provide outpatient services, including general and pediatric consultations for acute and chronic conditions; vaccination; reproductive health care including prenatal and postnatal care and family planning; wound dressing; minor surgery; psychosocial and mental health services; and health promotion. The clinic has a 24/7 emergency room to stabilize and refer severe patients. It also provides malnutrition screening and outpatient therapeutic feeding treatment for children, infants, and pregnant or lactating women with severe or moderate malnutrition. 

AL-AQSA HOSPITAL

MSF supports the emergency room, acute trauma surgery, advanced wound care, post-operative wound care, physiotherapy, health promotion, and mental health support. Activities also include malnutrition screening and referrals. 

AL-MARTYRS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER

MSF supports Ministry of Health teams in providing primary health care including wound care, mental health care, health promotion, physiotherapy, and malnutrition screening activities. Our teams closed activities at the center in April. 

AL-HEKKER PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER

MSF provides outpatient services, including general and pediatric consultations for acute and chronic conditions; vaccination; reproductive health care including pre- and postnatal care and family planning; wound dressing and minor surgery; psychosocial and mental health services including psychological first aid, individual and family sessions, and psychoeducation; and health promotion activities. Services also include malnutrition screening and outpatient treatment for children, infants, and pregnant or lactating women with severe or moderate malnutrition.

Since March 18, MSF teams have had to reduce capacity at Al-Hekker. 

FIELD HOSPITAL

As a response to the destruction of the health system in Gaza, MSF teams opened a field hospital in collaboration with the Ministry of Health near Al-Aqsa Hospital, which has 70 beds and emergency, outpatient, and inpatient departments including an operating theater and vascular surgical care. 

MSF CLINIC

Primary health care activities have been launched at the Gaza City clinic, including general consultations and screening for non-communicable diseases and malnutrition. Our teams there also provide wound care, physiotherapy, and sexual and reproductive health care including follow-up for pre- and postnatal care, gynecological consultations, and family planning.  We are increasing capacity for wound care and physiotherapy to meet the needs of people injured in recent attacks since the resumption of hostilities and using 3D-printed masks for patients with severe facial burns. 

SHEIKH RADWAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER

MSF recently start supporting the Ministry of Health at Sheikh Radwan primary health care center, mainly focusing on training staff on nutrition and emergency care, and donations of supplies. Our teams also started running mobile clinics providing primary health care and water distribution in different areas, including Jabalia camp, which had to end on March 18 with the resumption of the war. 

AL HELOU MATERNITY HOSPITAL

MSF teams support the maternity emergency room, inpatient maternity department, delivery rooms, operating theaters, and the newborn intensive care unit (NICU). We also support mental health care and health promotion activities at the hospital.

A lack of drinkable water, poor sanitation, and the destruction of water infrastructure have had dire consequences for people’s health in Gaza. Of more than 82,000 primary health care consultations MSF conducted in the first two months of this year, nearly a fifth were related to conditions linked with lack of water and hygiene, such as scabies and other skin conditions. This is why water distribution is an important part of MSF’s response.  

Between January and the end of April 2025, MSF teams distributed over 60 million liters of clean water and produced over 7.8 million liters through desalination. However, the already-dire water crisis in Gaza has worsened after Israeli authorities halted aid from entering the Strip on March 2, and then cut electricity on March 9, as water pumps and desalination plants require fuel and power to operate.Humanitarian aid and medical supplies  

Since Israeli authorities halted the flow of humanitarian aid and other supplies into the Strip on March 2, food, fuel, and medical stocks have been depleted. This total blockade of aid has deprived people of most basic needs and could lead to a high number of health complications and deaths.

Prior to the total siege, MSF provided over 636 tons of logistic and medical equipment from our international supply centers—as much as 30 planes or 130 trucks full. However, some supplies that are critical to our operations and the security of our staff have been difficult to transport into Gaza. These include generators, desalination stations and motor pumps, oxygen concentrators, vehicles, and equipment for communication. 

As Israeli bombardment resumes, our teams are again receiving mass casualties following bombings and attacks, with many patients requiring care for war wounds, crush injuries, and burns. MSF teams have seen an increase in the number of patients with burn injuries—most of them children. Many of these children were burned by bomb blasts; others by boiling water or fuel used for cooking or heating in makeshift shelters.

Infections resulting from poorly treated wounds are a growing concern, driven by the difficulty wounded people face accessing care and follow-up, shortages of supplies, and lack of access to hygiene.

There is high risk of infectious diseases including diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, skin infections, and hepatitis due to overcrowding and poor hygienic conditions in camps where displaced people are sheltering, and shortages of medicines and medical supplies.

With the aid blockade hindering the entry of food, including therapeutic food for malnutrition care, the nutrition situation in Gaza is deteriorating further as the risk of malnutrition increases. An April 2025 analysis by the World Food Programme found that food consumption has sharply deteriorated since the two-month ceasefire ended in March. Many of our staff, for example, have reported eating just one meal a day. In our hospitals, we're seeing children with severe burns from bomb blasts and cooking accidents who aren't healing properly because they aren't getting enough calories each day to fuel their recoveries. Malnutrition and related medical issues will persist across the whole Strip as long as the war continues and humanitarian access remains restricted.  

Even before the current war started, many years of instability had already taken a toll on the physical and mental health of Gaza’s children, leaving many with life-changing injuries, amputated limbs, and the trauma of losing parents and other loved ones along with their homes and schools. Children are also especially vulnerable to various health risks arising from the lack proper access to water, food, and warm shelter. The health needs of children are so high that the pediatric department at Nasser Hospital was operating beyond its bed capacity from July to December 2024. Over a quarter of patients were admitted for respiratory distress syndrome, a condition that can present in premature infants and makes them even more vulnerable in dire living conditions many face in Gaza. 

Pregnant women in Gaza are forced to navigate severe obstacles to reach medical facilities for prenatal care or delivery, including traveling dangerous routes amid fighting and without safe transportation, which can delay access to care and increase the risk of complications. Those able to reach a hospital often find them without capacity, and end up giving birth in deplorable conditions in plastic tents or public spaces; others must return to their makeshift shelters mere hours after undergoing cesarean sections. 

MSF teams in Gaza have assisted more than 11,000 deliveries to date. By January 2025, MSF teams were carrying out more than 100 cesarean sections per month.

While critical supplies like food, water, and electricity have been extremely limited throughout the war, the situation has become even worse since Israel halted the entry of all aid into the Strip on March 2, 2025. MSF teams are running out of medical supplies such as anesthetics, pediatric antibiotics, and medicines for chronic conditions like epilepsy, hypertension, and diabetes; and it has been impossible to restock items due to the blockade. Teams have been forced to start rationing medications and even turn some patients away because they don’t have the proper tools to treat them.