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Japanese Member of Doctors Without Borders Deplores Gaza Medical Crisis
Doctors Without Borders operates on limited supplies amid Israeli restrictions that block staff entry and threaten to create a major healthcare gap in Gaza, where it provides 20% of hospital beds.
- Doctors Without Borders announced its operations face an Israeli termination order publicised in early February, but Filipe Ribeiro said MSF will keep operating in Gaza for as long as possible.
- Citing security checks, Israeli authorities alleged links involving two MSF employees to Hamas and Islamic Jihad and said MSF failed to provide Palestinian staff lists, which MSF denies.
- The charity supplies at least 20 per cent of Gaza's hospital beds, runs around 20 health centres, and 15 Palestinian employees were killed since October 7, 2023.
- Since the beginning of January, international staff rotations have been halted, and the current international team due to leave in late February will not be replaced, risking a huge healthcare void in Gaza.
- MSF called the ban a 'pretext' and it has prompted UN and NGO condemnation; MSF said it hopes to reopen dialogue with the Israeli government 'soon, and the sooner the better'.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will continue working in the Gaza Strip “for as long as possible,” its head of mission for Palestine, Filipe Ribeiro, told AFP, days before the NGO’s expected end to its activities in the enclave, a decision taken by Israel. “For now, we continue working in Gaza and we intend to continue our activities for as long as possible,” Ribeiro said in an interview in Amman today.
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