7-21 | Medical workers also coming under fire Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, the majority of the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians and medical workers are also coming under fire, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Women and children comprised most of the wounded people arriving on Sunday morning in the emergency room in Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where MSF is working, following heavy shelling overnight and in the morning in the city's Ash Shuja'iyeh neighborhood.
7-18 | As soon as the five-hour long humanitarian ceasefire ended on Thursday, detonations were heard in Gaza City where the MSF clinic is located. Part of the MSF medical team finally managed to enter Gaza on Thursday to reinforce its emergency response - just in time. Klaxons, traffic jams, street sellers with carts full of melons, shops with colourful footballs, stoves, paint cans, children's bikes, bakeries on the sidewalks.
7-18 | With the resurgence of violence in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of people have fled the major Iraqi cities of Mosul, Fallujah and Tikrit in the past month as a result of fighting between armed opposition groups and the Iraqi army. Civilians have been fleeing cities in the central Anbar and Salah ad Din governorates in panic amid uncertainty over the rapid advance of a number of armed groups. Most have fled to Iraqi Kurdistan, Al Tameem governorate or to other cities considered to be relatively safe.
7-18 | With Thousands Still Encircled in Enclaves, Chad Border Closed, and Massive Gaps in Aid for Central African Refugees, Crisis in Central African Republic Far from Over A retrospective mortality study conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) among Central African refugees in Sido, Chad, found that 2,599 people died between November 2013 and April 2104, during the violent crackdown against the Central African Republic's (CAR) Muslim minority.
7-14 | The intensity of bombings in the Israeli military operation "Protective Edge" makes it extremely dangerous for the population and MSF teams in Gaza to move around. As of today, hospitals in Gaza are managing to cope with the influx of wounded arriving.