Médecins Sans Frontières

The US Just ‘Helped Bomb’ a Doctors Without Borders Cholera Clinic in Yemen

“Whether intentional or a result of negligence, it is totally unacceptable,” said Doctors Without Borders a statement. (CD) After the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières announced that a newly constructed cholera treatment center in Yemen was bombed on Monday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)—who has led the fight in the U.S. Senate to end […]

Syrian Rebels Raid Doctors Without Borders Hospital

Syrian rebels walk in an alley in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo)
Doctors Without Borders has suspended its activities in the besieged Damascus suburbs of East Ghouta after militants stormed its hospital looking for wounded enemies amid intense clashes between rival Syrian rebel groups.
According to reports from MSF-supported doctors in the area, about 30 masked and armed men stormed the Hazzeh Hospital in the East Ghouta region on 29 April, looking for specific wounded patients. They also stole the hospital’s ambulance.

MSF paramedic, civilian first responders killed in Saudi double-tap airstrike in Yemen

RT | January 22, 2016 Almost two dozen people, including civilian rescuers and an ambulance driver from an MSF-affiliated hospital, have reportedly been killed after Saudi-led coalition planes carried out repeated airstrikes on the same target in Sa’ada province, Yemen. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirmed the fatal air raids in Sa’ada, saying the “planes went […]

Killing Blind

These are people who had been working hard for months, non-stop for the past week. They had not gone home, they had not seen their families, they had just been working in the hospital to help people… and now they are dead. These people are friends, close friends. I have no words to express this. It is unspeakable.
The hospital, it has been my workplace and home for several months. Yes, it is just a building. But it is so much more than that. It is healthcare for Kunduz. Now it is gone.

‘US strike on Afghan hospital no mistake’ – Doctors Without Borders

Sputnik – 19.10.2015 Hitting back at claims from General John Campbell — the commander of NATO and US troops in Afghanistan — who said the hospital had been “mistakenly struck”, Christopher Stokes, the General Director of MSF, said evidence suggested the attack was planned. “The hospital was repeatedly hit both at the front and the […]