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UN says 50 were killed in Strikes on Four Syria Hospitals

Monday, February 15, 2016

BEIRUT — Airstrikes hit four hospitals in rebel-held northern Syria on Monday, including child and maternity facilities, international aid officials and witnesses reported. The United Nations said at least 50 people were killed, including children.

Yemen: Health Facilities under Attack - MSF Wants Answers

Monday, January 25, 2016

The war in Yemen is being fought with total disregard for the rules of war, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has seen three of its health facilities in Yemen come under attack in the last three months.

Syria's brave doctors keep working as Russian and regime bombs fall

Monday, January 4, 2016

A small band of doctors continues to work in rebel-held Syria, the most bombed patch of territory in the world, where hospitals and doctors’ clinics are specifically targeted for attack

Syria: Bombing & fighting threaten provision of medical care & humanitarian aid, MSF warns

Monday, December 7, 2015

Barcelona/Gaziantep – An upsurge in fighting and bombing over the past week in northern Syria’s Azaz district, near the Turkish border, is jeopardising medical activities in the few hospitals and health posts that are still functioning, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), warning that it may be forced to close its own hospital in the Aleppo province. The increased violence has also paralyzed the delivery of humanitarian aid – which was already limited – to more than half a million people in the area.

Afghanistan: MSF staff killed and hospital partially destroyed in Kunduz

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Updated: Oct 5th 9.30 AM EST: Latest update is that twelve staff members and ten patients, including three children, were killed; 37 people were injured including 19 staff members, during the bombing of MSF’s hospital in Kunduz , Afghanistan. The international medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific aerial bombing of its hospital in Kunduz.