Palestine

Years of all-out war

Gaza lies in ruins. Since October 2023 more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 171,000 have been wounded. This includes over 2,000 health and humanitarian workers, including 15 of our own Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleagues. MSF supports one of every five hospital beds in Gaza. Our teams help one in three mothers during childbirth. We treat children who are malnourished and provide vaccinations. In 2025 alone we distributed nearly 185 million gallons of water.

Now, Israel is taking steps to ban MSF and other aid groups from working in Gaza. We continue efforts to engage with Israeli authorities so that we can maintain our vital activities.

West Bank

The war in Gaza has reverberated in the West Bank, where Israeli military incursions and displacement have increased since the conflict escalated.

A growing number of attacks on medical personnel and facilities 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 are seeing ambulances carrying critical patients being 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.

Across the West Bank, settler violence and Israeli incursions continue to displace Palestinians. 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.

As a result of mass displacement, thousands of Palestinians in the north of the West Bank are living without proper shelter, essential services, or access to health care. People lack basic commodities such as diapers and other hygiene products, food, water, fuel, and electricity. Increasing state-backed settler violence is also displacing families.

Gaza war response

MSF has over 1,000 staff working in Gaza's hospitals, clinics, and other facilities. 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. We are also providing rehabilitative care for war-wounded children we've managed to evacuate to our reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan.

Learn more about how we're responding to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

West Bank

In Nablus, MSF teams are providing psychological therapy including services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and we are working with partners to train first responders, emergency health care workers, and doctors and nurses in emergency rooms. We also run a mobile team focused on women’s health and mental health.

In Hebron, MSF teams run 17 mobile clinics, providing general health care, sexual and reproductive health care, and mental health support. MSF teams also support four hospitals with capacity building and donation of supplies. We also provide training and first aid kits in communities, including displacement camps. Teams provide psychological first aid, psychiatric care, and individual and group counseling.

MSF also offers “safe community spaces” in Umm Qussa, Al Majaz, Umm Al-Kheir and in the H2 neighborhood of Hebron city. We have increased health promotion activities, pipe installations, and the distribution of relief items, hygiene kits, and portable toilets to displaced people and West Bank residents affected by violence and forcible displacement.

In the aftermath of displacement from camps in Jenin and Tulkarm, MSF has focused on covering the immediate needs while maintaining activities. In collaboration with local organizations, MSF distributed non-food items, hygiene kits, food parcels, bedding items, and clothing, as well as water heaters and water tanks, to thousands of internally displaced people.

MSF health promotion and mental health teams run outreach activities to vulnerable communities, promoting healthier lifestyles to improve health outcomes and mental health. Since July 2025, in light of the increase in violent and long-lasting incursions in villages around Jenin and Tulkarem, MSF has focused on delivering psychological first aid in affected villages in coordination with the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) cluster. Patients are referred to our newly established fixed mental health points or mobile clinics.