Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), one of the world's leading international medical humanitarian organizations. Learn more in
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Doctors Without Borders convoys attacked in
#Gaza
all elements point to the responsibility of the Israeli army.
We call for an independent investigation to establish the facts and the responsibilities.
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"We did what we could. Remember us.”These are the words Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila wrote on a
#Gaza
hospital whiteboard normally used for planning surgeries at the end of October 2023.
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Medical staff in
#Gaza
are so inundated by the sheer mass of patients arriving that the surgical board used to keep track of the weeks upcoming surgeries has been wiped clean and replaced with these words:
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"We're on the fourth floor, there's a sniper who attacked four patients inside the hospital. One of them has a gunshot wound directly in his neck, and he is a quadriplegic [patient], and the other one [was shot] in the abdomen."
#Gaza
Dr Mohammed Obeid in Al-Shifa hospital.
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Two Doctors Without Borders cars were deliberately hit, killing one MSF staff’s family member and injuring another.
We are calling for an immediate ceasefire, which is the only way for corridors to be implemented in order to safely evacuate trapped civilians.
#Gaza
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At Al-Shifa hospital
#Gaza
is without power. We have premature babies who need incubators, we have patients in the ICU who need respirators, we have over 600 patients that need medical care. A hospital needs power. We need an immediate ceasefire.
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Our teams are witnessing a shocking increase in Israeli attacks against civilians in Jenin, the West Bank. Attacks on healthcare have also increased dramatically and become systematic...
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We are currently unable to contact any of our staff inside Al-Shifa hospital. We are extremely concerned about the safety of patients and the medical staff.
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At Al-Shifa hospital
#Gaza
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We have around 600 inpatients
We have around 37 premature babies
We have around 17 patients in the ICU
We have around 600 postoperative patients
They all need medical care.
We need an immediate ceasefire.
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We're horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors, Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr. Ahmad Al Sahar, and a third doctor working with Al Awda, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari, following a strike on Al Awda Hospital,
#Gaza
.
Full statement here:
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We are horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility.
#Gaza
’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options.
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MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.
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#Gaza
The inaction of the
#UnitedNations
Security Council and vetoes from member states, particularly the
#UnitedStates
, make them complicit in the ongoing slaughter; this inaction has given license to the mass killing of men, women and children.
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"This brutal annihilation of an entire populations health system stretches beyond what humanitarian aid can fix. Doctors can’t stop bombs. "
Canada must call for ceasefire in
#gaza
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“There are dead people on the streets. We see people being shot at. We can see injured people. We hear them crying for help, but we cannot do anything. It is too dangerous to go outside”
Update from MSF staff in
#Gaza
this morning.
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We urgently request that the Canadian Government do everything within its power to achieve an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
. Ending the indiscriminate violence is the only way to prevent more deaths and scale up desperately needed humanitarian assistance.
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Nov 20: Five MSF vehicles parked in front of our clinic in
#Gaza
city were destroyed by the intervention of the Israeli forces. The clinic was also damaged as a result and part of the building was engulfed by fire. The cars and the clinic were clearly identified with our logo.
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#Breaking
: We are deeply alarmed by the decision of some countries - including
#Canada
- to suspend their funding to
#UNRWA
, which is a lifeline for millions of Palestinians in
#Gaza
Strip, the
#WestBank
and the region.
Read our full statement below.
On November 21, following a strike on Al Awda Hospital where he worked, Dr. Mahmoud and two other colleagues were killed. Al Awda was one of the few remaining functional hospitals in northern Gaza. Medical facilities and staff should never be a target.
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Doctors Without Borders condemns in the strongest possible terms the Jan. 8 strike on one of our shelters.
The strike led to the death of the five-year-old daughter of an MSF staff member.
Urgent Update: People will die in a few hours without functioning ventilators.
#Gaza
Finally we were able to get in touch with our staff inside Al-Shifa hospital this morning. The situation in the hospital keeps getting worse.
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We urge US, UK, Canada, Member states of the League of Arab States, Member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation and the European Union who have repeatedly called for the respect of International Humanitarian Law to take action to ensure a ceasefire now.
#gaza
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“We are being killed here, please do something" texted one of MSF nurse from Al-Shifa hospital basement this morning, where he and his family were sheltering from the incessant bombing.
#Gaza
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You've seen our call on your feeds and it continues: we need the Canadian government to do everything in it's power to call for an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
.
Stand with us and read our full statement here:
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Doctors Without Borders calls on the Canadian Government to do more than just remember healthcare workers and patients in
#Gaza
when it is too late.
Canada needs to take action to uphold our shared humanity by demanding an immediate ceasefire.
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The huge number of children whose wounds we have treated or bodies we have delivered to hospital morgues obliterates any notion that adequate precautions are being taken to protect civilians.
#Gaza
Earlier today, an MSF surgeon was injured inside Al-Awda hospital in north
#Gaza
by a shot fired from outside the facility. Our colleagues report snipers surrounding the hospital, firing on those inside. Al-Awda has been under total siege by Israeli forces since December 5.
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"If action isn't taken right now, if we do not stop this bloodshed immediately with a ceasefire or at the bear minimum a medical evacuation of patients, these hospitals will indeed become a morgue."
#Gaza
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Doctors Without Borders urgently requests that the Canadian Government do everything within its power to achieve an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Read our letter:
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MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients, and to allow people who wish to leave the hospitals to do so.
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An MSF team of 15 international and national staff entered
#Gaza
from Egypt via the Rafah crossing point. They will aim to support medical and surgical capacity in the Strip, where the healthcare infrastructure has collapsed, and medics are utterly exhausted.
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Ending the indiscriminate violence is the only way to prevent more deaths and increase desperately needed medical humanitarian assistance. We urgently reiterate our calls for an immediate ceasefire.
We urgently reiterates our calls to stop the attacks against hospitals!
#Gaza
Call for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients, and to allow people who wish to leave the hospitals to do so.
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“We consider Israel responsible for the situation of extreme deprivation and despair which prevails in
#Gaza
… which led to today’s tragic events.”
Our response following the news that over 100 people have been killed while waiting to receive food:
Israel has given Al Awda Hospital just two hours to evacuate. Our staff are still treating patients.
We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza.
We are trying to protect our staff and patients.
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MSF has not been able to contact its staff inside Al-Shifa hospital since last night.
Other MSF colleagues living in Gaza city reported that the hostilities around Al-Shifa have not stopped.
We are worried for their lives.
#Gaza
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Four of our colleagues have been killed; many more have lost family members. Numerous other colleagues have been injured. Other fellow humanitarian organizations have reported dozens of their staff have been killed.
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The actions of world leaders, including in Canada, have been too weak and too slow to stem the relentless bloodshed, and atrocities are still being committed every day. A total and immediate ceasefire is the only humane option.
#Gaza
Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
#Gaza
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"This brutal annihilation of an entire populations health system stretches beyond what humanitarian aid can fix. Doctors can’t stop bombs. "
Full speech from
@joe_belliveau
speaking about
#Gaza
at Canada's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
#cdnpoli
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MSF staff say heavy air strikes by Israeli forces and fierce fighting continue around
#AlShifaHospital
in
#Gaza
City, endangering patients, medical staff and people trapped inside with very few supplies. 1/4
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Electricity in a hospital is a lifeline and we know without it patients die. If action isn't taken right now, if we do not stop this bloodshed immediately with a ceasefire or at the bear minimum a medical evacuation of patients these hospitals will become a morgue.
#Gaza
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Doctors Without Borders calls on the Canadian Government to do more than just remember healthcare workers and patients in
#Gaza
when it is too late.
Canada needs to take action to uphold our shared humanity by demanding an immediate ceasefire.
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#GAZA
MSF teams and hundreds of patients are still inside Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.
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Shooting people in a hospital, or any act of violence in a healthcare facility is completely unacceptable, we unequivocally condemn the continued attacks on healthcare facilities in
#Palestine
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Nov 20: Video of Five MSF vehicles and damage caused to the MSF clinic in
#Gaza
city, all clearly identified by the organization’s logo, attributed to the intervention of an Israeli bulldozer and a heavy military vehicle.
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"People will die in a few hours without functioning ventilators.
When we sent the ambulance to bring the patients, a few metres away, they attacked the ambulance.
We saw some people trying to leave Al-Shifa, they killed them, they bombed them, the sniper killed them."
#Gaza
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We are deeply concerned about the situation in Gaza. We have lost contact with some of our Palestinian colleagues on the ground.
We are particularly worried for the patients, medical staff and thousands of families taking shelter at Al Shifa hospital and other health facilities.
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As Israeli forces enter Al Shifa hospital, we call once again for the protection of medical staff, patients and displaced civilians sheltered inside the hospital. We are extremely worried for their lives.
#Gaza
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The relentless killings, destruction of essential infrastructure and withholding of items including water and medicines essential for survival amount to brazen and repeated violations of International Humanitarian Law.
#Gaza
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Indiscriminate and relentless attacks in
#Gaza
must stop now.
Assaults on hospitals and medical staff must stop now.
Restrictions on aid and the siege must stop now.
Forcible displacement must stop now.
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Since the fragile truce in
#Gaza
collapsed on December 1, aerial and ground attacks by Israeli forces have resulted in hundreds of people killed and injured.
Hospitals can't treat patients if they are full. The indiscriminate violence must end.
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For 140 days, we have watched the systematic obliteration of a health system we have supported for decades and watched our patients and colleagues be killed.
#Gaza
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International Humanitarian Law is explicitly clear that hospitals and medical personnel must be protected. Attacks on hospitals are attacks on humanity.
Take action to uphold our shared humanity by demanding an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
.
International Humanitarian Law is explicitly clear that hospitals and medical personnel must be protected. Attacks on hospitals are attacks on humanity.
Take action to uphold our shared humanity by demanding an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
.
“We used to have a football team in the camp. From 20 players in the team, only seven are still alive, many of them have been killed since July 2023. They were young, between 17 and 22 years old” - shares an MSF Nurse.
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MSF strongly condemns the decision by Israeli Forces to issue an evacuation order to thousands of displaced people sheltering inside Nasser hospital, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza.
Our full statement:
We Agree: Attacks on hospitals in
#Gaza
are attacks on humanity and are a clear violations of International Humanitarian Law.
A sustained ceasefire is needed to end the indiscriminate violence and scale up desperately needed humanitarian assistance.
Many humanitarian workers have been killed in Gaza. More must be done to protect them and the life-saving services they provide, as per humanitarian law.
With
@MSF
,
@SavetheChildren
,
@OxfamQuebec
, we discussed their important work and how Canada can continue to support them.
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Jenin, West Bank: Israeli forces just shot and killed an unarmed teenage boy inside Khalil Suleiman hospital compound. Efforts to save his life from MSF and Ministry of Health doctors were in vain.
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“We are really exhausted. We just stay alive. We saw children and innocent people killed, whole families destroyed. A massacre. They attack people when they are moving to a safe place. There is no safe place.”
MSF nurse Mohammad Hawajreh in
#Gaza
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"This brutal annihilation of an entire population's health system stretches beyond what humanitarian aid can fix. Doctors cannot stop bombs."
#Gaza
Canada must call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
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We are urgently calling on the Canadian Government do everything within its power to achieve an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Read our letter:
Take action, share this post and demand an immediate ceasefire.
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#Gaza
: This morning, bullets were fired into one of three MSF premises located near
#AlShifa
hospital. There are over 100 people, including 65 children, who ran out of food here since yesterday night.
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International Humanitarian Law is explicitly clear that hospitals and medical personnel must be protected. Attacks on hospitals are attacks on humanity.
Take action to uphold our shared humanity by demanding an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
.
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"In Al-Shifa hospital today, since this morning, there is no electricity, actually there is no water, there is no food. Our team is exhausted. We have two neonate patients who died, because the incubator is not working, because there is no electricity."
#Gaza
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Ricardo Martínez is a Logistics Coordinator working with our Emergency Unit. Watch him explain what his saw during the emergency intervention in
#Gaza
during last month.
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International Humanitarian Law is explicitly clear that hospitals and medical personnel must be protected. Attacks on hospitals are attacks on humanity.
Take action to uphold our shared humanity by demanding an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
.
Impartial: we deliver free medical care to people who need it, giving priority to those in the most serious and immediate danger. We do not discriminate according to nationality, race, gender, identity, religious beliefs, class, political opinion or any other affiliation.
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Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
:
Canada must call for an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
Relentless killings, destruction of essential infrastructure and withholding of items including water and medicines essential for survival amount to brazen and repeated violations of IHL.
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We urgently reiterates our calls to stop the attacks against hospitals!
#Gaza
Call for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients, and to allow people who wish to leave the hospitals to do so.
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We are horrified by the recent bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which was treating patients and hosting displaced Gazans.
Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed.
This is a massacre. It is absolutely unacceptable.
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#Gaza
: MSF staff in Nasser hospital report they can feel the ground shaking and that there is a sense of panic among staff, patients and displaced people sheltering inside the building.
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People die in
#Jenin
because they can’t access hospitals as a new Israeli military operation has been ongoing for 2 days. Yesterday a man carried his 13-year-old son on foot to Khalil Suleiman hospital because Israeli armoured cars blocked ambulances. The boy died on arrival.
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#GAZA
: After yesterday’s bombings of Al-Maghazi and Al-Bureij refugee camps, Al-Aqsa hospital reports having admitted 209 injured and 131 dead, so far. About half of them were women and children. We are providing trauma wound care for the variety of war-related injuries they see.
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At Al-Shifa hospital
#Gaza
:
We currently have around 600 inpatients who need medical care.
We have around 37 to 40 premature babies.
We have around 17 other patients in the ICU.
We have around 600 postoperative admitted patients which need medical care.
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MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients, and to allow people who wish to leave the hospitals to do so.
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Last week, we shared this photo from our team in Al Awda hospital in
#Gaza
that used to list the weekly surgical cases.
Since then there was a strike on the hospital.
We're re-sharing this photo in solidarity.
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"We did what we could. Remember us." - Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila. On December 19, Doctors Without Borders held candlelight vigils across Canada in solidarity with health workers in Gaza.
We continue to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire.
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"We need a guarantee that there is a safe corridor because we saw some people trying to leave Al-Shifa [Hopsital], they killed them, they bombed them, the sniper killed them...If they give us guarantees and evacuate the patients first, we will evacuate.” - MSF Staff
#Gaza
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In the early hours of Nov. 17, Israeli forces surrounded hospitals across Jenin, including MSF supported Khalil Suleiman Hospital, while the military forces were conducting incursions into a refugee camp in the city. Explosion and shooting were heard from the hospital compound.
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"When we sent the ambulance to bring the patients, a few metres away, they attacked the ambulance. There are injured people around the hospital, they are looking for medical care, we can’t bring them inside."
#Gaza
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On December 19, we held candlelight vigils in solidarity with health workers in Gaza.
We gathered in cities across Canada to remember our colleagues who have been tragically killed since October 7.
We continue to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire.
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Emergency medical teams stand ready along with trucks of medical supplies to enter
#Gaza
and scale up humanitarian assistance as soon as possible. We must be able to assure their safety. Thousands of patients and our exhausted colleagues in Gaza desperately need their support.
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From Meinie Nicolai, MSF Director General: "Israel’s declared ground offensive on
#Rafah
would be catastrophic and must not proceed. As aerial bombardment of the area continues, more than a million people, many living in tents and makeshift shelters...
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"We don't want to be killed here just only because we remain committed to our patients and our medical profession."
Text message received from MSF staff in
#Gaza
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We reiterate the call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire.
We call on Israeli authorities to allow unimpeded and streamlined humanitarian and essential aid such as food to be delivered into and throughout the
#Gaza
Strip and for attacks on civilians to stop immediately.
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As Israeli forces enter Al-Shifa hospital, we call once again for the protection of medical staff, patients and displaced civilians sheltered inside the hospital.
We are extremely worried for their lives.
#Gaza
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Doctors Without Borders urgently requests that the Canadian Government do everything within its power to achieve an immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
.
Read our letter to
@JustinTrudeau
: