Sanaa/Paris/New York October 27, 2015 – Airstrikes carried out late last night by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen destroyed a hospital supported by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), MSF announced today. The small hospital, in the Haydan district in Saada Province, was hit by several airstrikes … Read more
27 October 2015 – An earthquake variously recorded at between 7.6 and 8.1 on the Richter scale rocked parts of northeastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan on the afternoon of 26 October. Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical projects in north western Pakistan were faced with an initial influx of seriously wounded in … Read more
Tensions have spiralled throughout recent weeks in the Palestinian city of Hebron, with a heavy military presence in the city and tensions rising between Palestinian families living in H2, located in the old part of the city, and the nearby Israeli settlers. Since this peak in violence that started on 2 October, MSF has reached … Read more
Ramtha, Jordan, 29 September 2015 – Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) commemorated on the 29th of September the second year anniversary for its Emergency Trauma Surgical Project which provides quality medical treatment to Syrian war-wounded patients in Al-Ramtha Government Hospital in Ramtha district, northern Jordan. Since September 2013, over 1,850 Syrian war-wounded … Read more
14 October 2015: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been informed that the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) has been activated. This is the first step needed to undertake an independent investigation into the attack on MSF’s hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on 3 October. The IHFFC is now awaiting the agreement of the United States … Read more
Sunday morning reiterating MSF’s call for an independent investigation of the bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, MSF General Director Christopher Stokes released this additional statement on Sunday, in response to claims from Afghan officials that MSF’s hospital in Kunduz was routinely used by the Taliban for military purposes: “MSF is disgusted by the recent … Read more
October 6,2015 MSF denounces blatant breach of International Humanitarian Law October 5,2015 Today the US government has admitted that it was their airstrike that hit our hospital in Kunduz and killed 22 patients and MSF staff. Their description of the attack keeps changing – from collateral damage, to a tragic incident, to now attempting to … Read more
“I have no words to express this. It is unspeakable.” MSF nurse Lajos Zoltan Jecs was in Kunduz trauma hospital when the facility was struck by a series of aerial bombing raids in the early hours of Saturday morning. He describes his experience. “It was absolutely terrifying. I was sleeping in our safe … Read more
MSF HAD INFORMED ALL FIGHTING PARTIES OF HOSPITAL GPS COORDINATES MSF condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific bombing ofits hospital in Kunduz full of staff and patients. MSF wishes to clarify that all parties to the conflict, including in Kabul and Washington, were clearly informed of the precise location (GPS Coordinates) of the … Read more
Kabul, 29 September 2015. Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) trauma hospital has been overwhelmed with wounded as heavy fighting between government and opposition forces engulfed Kunduz city on Monday. Since early Monday morning, MSF’s medical teams have treated 171 wounded, including 46 children. Fifty patients arrived in critical condition. The majority of … Read more