🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇮🇷 Iran 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇶 Iraq Amid escalating conflict in the Middle East, leaving millions in fear and tens of thousands displaced, our teams are adapting our response and scaling up activities where possible in Lebanon and Iran. In Palestine, we’re maintaining our activities to respond to the enormous needs in Gaza and the West Bank. And in Iraq, medical supplies are ready and on standby to be used or distributed in the region as needed. https://msf.me/middle-east-conflict

Since the ceasefire agreement on 10 October 2025, Gaza has been effectively divided by a dangerous, ever expanding, and ambiguous “yellow line”, which is controlled by the Israeli forces. One side of the line, making up 58% of the Strip, is under Israeli military control — pushing people into the remaining 42% of the territory. The line is not clearly marked and is gradually shifting to the west. Our teams have treated several patients with violent injuries related to the yellow line. Palestinians have been regularly shot by the Israeli forces while collecting water or firewood, or approaching their homes, near the line.

Despite the 1 March 2026 deadline for 37 NGOs to leave Palestine, we are committed to remaining to provide assistance. People living through the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza need a massive scale-up of lifesaving support. Yet, the Israeli authorities continue to impose restrictions on aid. And as Christopher Lockyear, our Secretary General says, “MSF’s programmes are critical lifelines. Medical care and humanitarian assistance on this scale cannot easily be replaced”. In 2025, our teams in Gaza: 🔴 Provided over 900,000 outpatient consultations 🔴 Assisted one in three deliveries 🔴 Distributed more than 700 million litres of water We will stay in Palestine for as long as possible, doing as much as we can. The Israeli authorities must enable humanitarian aid at scale, and the international community must ensure that Palestinians are not abandoned. Read more: https://msf.me/aid-influx-needed-gaza

🚨 In the first two weeks of February, we treated 167 patients for injuries from drone strikes in Sudan. These drone strikes are hitting civilian areas and critical infrastructure, including schools, markets, healthcare facilities, and water sources. We’re calling for the immediate protection of civilians and humanitarian workers: https://msf.me/february-drone-strikes-sudan

A new doctor has joined our team. 🩺🌸 We are honoured to announce that Tony Tony Chopper is supporting Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Wherever we go together, the principle remains the same: everyone deserves access to medical care, no matter who or where they are. Chopper is joining our teams to learn how humanitarian crises affect people worldwide—from responding to epidemics to providing trauma care during conflict. Follow his journey on www.msf.org/chopper - Credits: ©Eiichiro Oda / Shueisha ©MSF #MSFxCHOPPER

🚨 Nigeria: On Monday, 16 March, three suicide attacks were reported in Maiduguri, Borno state, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100. We sent medical teams to support local authorities in treating the wounded at two hospitals in Maiduguri where 108 patients are being treated. “We arrived at night at the State Specialist hospital. The emergency room was full of patients with different kinds of trauma injuries. We helped stabilse them, dressed wounds, and referred the critical patients to the University of Maiduguri Teaching hospital, where we had another MSF medical team supporting the Ministry of Health with both triage and stabilisation of the injured,” says Dr Alain Kikwaya, MSF medical team leader in Maiduguri. The blasts, which began shortly after 7:00 pm, targeted several locations. The main gate of the Teaching hospital, where we support the diphtheria treatment unit, was targeted in one of the attacks. No patient or staff member in the unit was injured in the incident.

More than 800,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in less than two weeks in Lebanon. No one is being spare from relentless Israeli bombings and blanket evaluation orders. We have mobile teams providing care to people who have been newly displaced, as well as people who never returned home after previous displacements. On 12 March, our team arrived at one shelter, in a town called Marwaniyeh, where an Israeli airstrike hit only 150 metres away the night before. Ghina, a resident at the shelter, described the strike: “The entire shelter trembled, and the children started crying. I am tired of this situation.” Learn more about the care we are providing to people who have been forcibly displaced: https://msf.me/lebanon-evacuation-orders

🚨 South Sudan: Hundreds of thousands of people and our teams have received an evacuation order in Akobo, Jonglei state, ahead of a looming government forces offensive on the opposition-held town. People are now faced with the impossible choice of fleeing without protection or staying at extreme risk to their lives. https://msf.me/offensive-akobo

Food. Water. Shelter. After fleeing violence in Jonglei state, South Sudan, these are the things that displaced woman Nyamai says is needed in displacement sites around Chuil, or “without these, survival will not be possible”. We are urging humanitarian organisations to immediately scale up the response across central and northeastern South Sudan, especially in areas that are still cut-off from aid. Read more: https://www.msf.org/displaced-people-northeastern-south-sudan-need-urgent-support