Palestine

Years of all-out war in Gaza

Gaza lies in ruins. Since October 2023, more than 72,900 Palestinians have been killed and more than 173,000 have been wounded, many with life-altering injuries. Over 2,300 health and humanitarian workers have been killed, including 15 of our own MSF colleagues. The Israeli army’s forced displacement orders have uprooted 1.9 million people — about 90 percent of the total population of the Strip — with 76.6 percent of housing units destroyed or damaged. It will take decades to rebuild and recover, and for many Palestinians, the physical and emotional wounds will last a lifetime.

Despite the ceasefire agreement in October 2025, violence and killings of Palestinians continue daily. Israel is still blocking sufficient aid and supplies from entering the Strip, depriving people of the essentials they need to live, and prolonging this genocide.

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Escalation in the West Bank

Just 30 miles away from Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank are also being forcibly removed from their homes and land by Israeli policies deliberately designed to prevent any possibility of return. Attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have escalated and increased since 2023, while home demolitions and forced displacement continue. Since October 2023, at least 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, including at least 239 children, according to OCHA.  

A growing number of attacks on health care have been reported to MSF teams, including attacks on hospitals, destruction of makeshift medical sites in refugee camps, and the harassment, detention, injury, and killing of first responders and medical workers by Israeli forces. Our teams have seen ambulances carrying critical patients blocked by Israeli forces at checkpoints, medical facilities surrounded and raided during active operations, and health care workers subjected to physical violence while trying to save lives. 

Settler violence and Israeli incursions continue to displace Palestinians across the West Bank. In 2025, MSF teams witnessed policies and practices that are blatantly designed to remove Palestinians from their land and prevent any possibility of return. In September 2025, we raised the alarm about forced displacement significantly heightening the risk of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

Gaza

MSF has over 1,430 staff working in Gaza's hospitals and other health facilities, including our field hospital in Deir al-Balah and our clinic in Gaza City. Our teams provide surgical care, wound and burn care, malnutrition screening and treatment, maternal and pediatric care, physiotherapy, vaccination, mental health support, water and sanitation support, and care for non-communicable diseases, among other services. 

Medical evacuations

MSF supports medical evacuations for patients in need of specialized care no longer available in Gaza due to Israeli forces’ decimation of its health system. To date, MSF has supported 147 medical evacuations. Sixty-six of these patients were evacuated to Jordan for treatment at MSF’s reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman; the remainder were evacuated to Spain, Switzerland, and other countries in partnership with governing authorities. But this is only a drop in the ocean: More than 18,500 Palestinians require medical evacuation, including children and elderly patients with severe burns and fractures, amputations, congenital anomalies, and other serious conditions. 

A clear, predictable medical evacuation system must be established urgently — with full respect to patients’ right to a safe, voluntary, and dignified return to Gaza.

Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation is a significant part of MSF’s response in Gaza. We carry out water trucking activities, establish distribution points, and provide technical support to desalination plants. In 2025, MSF distributed over 1.1 million gallons of water across Gaza. In May 2026, MSF produced 17,114,122 gallons of water through reverse osmosis, and distributed 15,506,371 gallons of water.  

Lack of water is life-threatening and can contribute to health issues like diarrhea, jaundice, and scabies. Dehydration can be lethal and also makes it harder to recover from other diseases. 

West Bank

Our teams in the West Bank are expanding efforts to reach communities where people are unable to access care, such as the north of the occupied territory and remote areas such as Masafer Yatta in the south. We aim to bolster the local emergency response capacity, including by training health care workers and teaching community members how to provide first aid in the event that they are unable to reach care when it’s needed. We also distribute relief items for displaced people.  

In Nablus and Hebron, MSF teams are providing psychosocial support; care for sexual and gender-based violence; and psychological, emergency, and first response training. In Hebron, we run mobile clinics providing general health care, sexual and reproductive health care, and mental health support. 

Earlier this year, Israel barred MSF and other major nongovernmental organizations from working in Gaza and the West Bank, leaving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unable to access lifesaving health care, water, and other essential services.