EMERGENCY UPDATE: MSF Responding in Gaza and the West Bank. Power lifesaving care around the world. Support our work.

For the first time in 25 years, children in Gaza are facing a resurgence of poliovirus.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working alongside the Ministry of Health and United Nations to provide logistical and organizational support for an ongoing large-scale polio vaccination campaign in five health facilities across central and southern Gaza. The campaign aims to vaccinate approximately 640,000 children under age 10. MSF teams will support coordinating spaces to store cold chain equipment—crucial to maintaining vaccine potency—in a primary health care center serving as the distribution point for vaccination centers. Our health promoters are also working to inform the community about the campaign and direct families to the nearest vaccination centers.

Polio is highly contagious and threatens to devastate an already vulnerable population. Its resurgence is a consequence of the destruction of Gaza’s health system and infrastructure and the appalling living conditions people have been forced into. Around the world, our teams are seeing what happens when health care systems are destroyed: It can lead to worsening, or even new, emergencies.

Your support allows our teams to respond to multiple, and often compounding, emergencies like these, in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti, and across the world. Rush your gift today, and it will be put right to work providing care to patients around the globe.

Simultaneously, MSF teams in the West Bank are facing increasingly challenging conditions. An ongoing violent incursion by Israeli forces, which began on August 28, is reportedly the largest in the West Bank in over 20 years. Health facilities have been blocked, and medical staff are reportedly being attacked, harassed, and hindered as they attempt to care for wounded patients.

In the MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin, compromised electricity and water supplies have forced the suspension of vital operations like dialysis, which is essential for the treatment of people with kidney failure. MSF teams in the West Bank continue to provide emergency care, primary health care via mobile clinics, and mental health care amid increasing challenges.

Across Palestine, our teams have witnessed attacks on health facilities and health care. Despite the challenges, we remain committed to providing essential medical humanitarian aid wherever we’re needed most. MSF continues to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza to ensure that people have access to urgently-needed aid and health care.

Your support is crucial as we continue to respond to emergencies in Gaza and around the world.

Gratefully,
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, impartial medical humanitarian organization. We provide medical care where the needs are greatest, regardless of race, gender, religion, or politics. Our teams are working in Gaza and the West Bank, as we have for over 20 years. We are providing medical care and supporting a health system that urgently lacks medical personnel and supplies. We call on all parties to the conflict to ensure the safety of civlians, medical facilities, and health care workers.

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