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The United Nations' top Middle East envoy told the U.N. Security Council after a visit to the Gaza Strip this week that what he saw was "shocking and unsustainable," and that the humanitarian situation is "desperate." "I cannot stress enough how urgently we need a deal that will bring about a humanitarian cease-fire and the…

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The healthcare system in Gaza is no longer functioning, the charity Médecins Sans Frontières has told the UN Security Council in a strongly worded speech. In a briefing to the UN on 22 February,1 MSF’s secretary general, Christopher Lockyear, said, “There is no health system to speak of left in Gaza. Israel’s military has dismantled hospital after hospital. What remains is so little in the face of such carnage. “The excuse given is that medical facilities have been used for military pu...

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By Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel will send negotiators on Friday to truce talks in Paris, Israeli media said, as Gazans hoped for a ceasefire that could hold off a full-blown Israeli assault on Rafah, after it endured one of its worst bombardments of the conflict. Israel’s…

The head of the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) slammed the US for vetoing a Gaza ceasefire resolution in testimony at the UN Security Council on Thursday and detailed the horrors Palestinian children are facing in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege. "We are…

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NEW YORK, February 22, 2024 —Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), called today on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to demand an immediate ...

The head of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that medical teams in the Gaza Strip have come up with a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family. "Children who do survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries, but the invisible ones too," MSF International Secretary General Christopher Lockyear told the 15-member council. Lockyear slammed the United States, say...