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Doctors Without Borders Suspends Non-Critical Care at Gaza Hospital Over Armed Presence
Doctors Without Borders halted non-critical care at Gaza’s largest hospital due to armed men inside, citing threats to neutrality and safety of patients and staff since the October ceasefire.
- On Jan. 20, 2026, Médecins Sans Frontières suspended non-critical services at Nasser Hospital due to security breaches posing serious threats to its teams and patients.
- Since the U.S.-brokered October ceasefire, MSF teams and patients reported seeing armed men, some masked, across the hospital compound alongside growing incidents, MSF disclosed in a Feb. 11 FAQ.
- MSF suspended specific outpatient consultations such as 3D burn screening and mental-health services and ended support to paediatrics and maternity wards, including neonatal intensive care unit, but will continue inpatient and surgical care for traumatic and burn injuries.
- MSF's operational pullback worsens strain on Gaza's medical network, which includes six hospitals, two field hospitals, eight primary health centres, and limits care at Nasser Hospital affecting hundreds in maternity and burn wards.
- MSF's rare public admission intersects with long-standing Israeli authorities' claims about hospitals, while international humanitarian law protects hospitals but allows loss of immunity if used militarily amid violence since Oct. 7, 2023 and more than 590 Palestinians killed since the ceasefire.
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Doctors Without Borders admits Gaza hospital used by terrorists, halts operations
The group said such conditions posed “serious security threats to our teams and patients.” By The Algemeiner The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has publicly acknowledged that armed individuals — many of them masked — were present inside the large compound of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, citing intimidation of patients, arbitrary arrests, and suspected weapons movement as reasons for halting some of its work there. …
Doctors Without Frontiers announced the suspension of part of their operations in one of the largest hospitals in the Gaza Strip, after patients and officials reported the presence of armed and armed men.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has suspended many of its activities at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip. It said this week it made the “difficult decision” due to concerns about security at the facility, including the presence of armed men who were arbitrarily arresting patients and suspected weapons being moved around the hospital grounds.
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MSF suspends some work at Gaza's Nasser Hospital due to presence of armed men
Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended some operations at one of Gaza's largest functioning hospitals after patients and staff said they witnessed armed, masked men in parts of the compound.
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