Doctors Without Borders

MSF halts staff list submission to Israel, raises safety, transparency issues

MSF withholds staff lists from Israel, citing safety fears and a lack of assurances. The move follows months of engagement with Israeli authorities over new operational regulations.

|BySHOSHANA BAKER
View of humanitarian supplies for Gaza, with the logos of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and World Health Organization, stored at the Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses storing aid, in the Egyptian border town of El-Arish, Egypt, April 8, 2025.
PEOPLE AFFILIATED with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hold signs during a vigil to honor colleagues and others who have been killed during the war in Gaza outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, December 6, 2023.

Doctors Without Borders agrees to provide Palestinian staff list to Israel in order to overturn ban

MSF made the announcement on Saturday, just over three weeks after Israel announced the ban on 37 NGOs from operating in Palestine due to failure to register in time.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Members of MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), carry banners and flags during a protest demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, at Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut, Lebanon, December 4, 2023.

Israel’s Doctors Without Borders decision is overdue, security comes first - editorial

The government has a clear stance. Gaza is a war zone run by Hamas, and humanitarian access can be exploited.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
PEOPLE AFFILIATED with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hold signs during a vigil to honor colleagues and others who have been killed during the war in Gaza outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, December 6, 2023.

Doctors Without Borders advanced anti-Israel narrative, maintained terror ties - exclusive

The well-known medical organization is one of several dozen NGOs prohibited from operating in Gaza and the West Bank since January 1.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Israel-Hamas War Day 264: What is happening in Gaza, Lebanon border?

Haredi leaders condemn draft law • Doctors Without Borders claims PIJ terrorist was a 'colleague'

JUNE 26, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. June 26, 2024.

Check who you're hiring: PIJ terrorist eliminated, MSF decries killing of 'colleague'

The Israeli Air Force targeted and killed Fadi Jihad Muhammad Al-Wadiya, a key figure in Palestinian Islamic Jihad's missile program in Gaza City.

JUNE 26, 2024ByEYAL GREEN
Smoke and flames rise during an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, June 3, 2024

Cholera outbreak hits Syrian refugees sheltering in camps in Lebanon

Health organizations are struggling to contain recent outbreaks of cholera in refugee camps across the Middle East.

OCTOBER 21, 2022ByREUTERS
A girl walks outside tents at an informal camp for Syrian refugees in Qab Elias

Doctors Without Borders launches petition for fair COVID vaccine allotment

“This pandemic will not be over until it's over for everyone, everywhere,” said Doctors Without Borders who called for equitable coronavirus distribution.

JULY 17, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A medical worker talks to volunteers as they wait to receive an injection during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020.

Gunmen attack Doctors Without Borders clinic in Kabul

A Ministry of Interior statement confirmed an attack had taken place at a hospital.

MAY 12, 2020ByREUTERS
Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack in Kabul

Iran incites against Doctors Without Borders amid coronavirus crisis

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sent a team and temporary hospital unit to Iran on March 22, only to have the regime spread claims that it was spying and try to expel the aid from the country.

MARCH 24, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Members of firefighters wear protective face masks, amid fear of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they disinfect the streets, ahead of the Iranian New Year Nowruz, March 20, in Tehran, Iran March 18, 2020.

The politics of war wounds

Regrettably, we can only repair bodies.

MARCH 22, 2017ByMARCO BALDAN
Saudi artillerymen at the border with Yemen fire at Houthi positions

Finance panel erupts into debate over Physicians for Human Rights’ tax break

Smotrich proposed similar legislation, which the Knesset approved in a preliminary reading last week, and will be combined with the government bill in committee.

FEBRUARY 16, 2016ByLAHAV HARKOV
Finance Ministry chief economist Yoel Naveh (left) speaks to the Knesset Finance Committee in Jerusalem

Organ donors compensated for NIS 1.5 million since January for expenses they incurred

Organ donors are entitled to a rebate of NIS 2,700 for travel expenses and a grant to cover the loss of work days for 40 days before and after giving the organs.

JULY 20, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Doctors perform surgery [illustrative].

Americas prescription drug issue

APRIL 25, 2015ByLAWRENCE POLYAKOV
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