Doctors Without Borders

Supreme Court allows NGOs facing Gaza ban to keep operating, for now

Some 17 NGOs and the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) sought an urgent suspension of the ban in a petition to the High Court of Justice.

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A Palestinian woman helps a burn victim, Maria Abu Aawad, at a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital, amid severe shortages of medical equipment, medicines and essential materials needed for burn treatment, in Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, January 26, 2026.
Crowds gather in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Khan Yunis's Nasser Hospital, August 25, 2025.

IDF links Hamas command activity to Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza

Nasser Hospital was used as a command center by Hamas, the IDF said, following MSF’s decision to halt noncritical medical activity due to armed presence.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, TOBIAS HOLCMAN
Palestinians walk past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on January 11, 2026.

Doctors Without Borders report validates what the IDF has been saying for years - editorial

For the first time during the war, a major international organization has publicly recognized the presence of armed groups operating within a Gaza hospital.

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View of humanitarian supplies for Gaza, with the logos of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and World Health Organization, stored at the Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses storing aid, in the Egyptian border town of El-Arish, Egypt, April 8, 2025.

Doctors Without Borders halts operations at Gaza hospital after sightings of armed men, weapons

"Patients and MSF personnel have seen armed men, some masked, in different areas of the large compound of the hospital," Doctors Without Borders said in a statement.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

COGAT refutes claims made by Doctors Without Borders of Gaza water crisis

MSF had released a video on social media claiming that if it's forced to cease activities in Gaza, then “hundreds of thousands of people will lose access to drinking water.”

FEBRUARY 10, 2026ByTPS
Trucks are seen carrying aid and fuel into the Gaza Strip via COGAT and the Israeli Navy, May 26, 2024

NGO Monitor says Hamas deeply embedded in humanitarian structures due to lack of legislation

Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor’s president, said seized files and photos show Hamas embedded liaisons inside aid groups, and had ties to hospitals and doctors.

FEBRUARY 3, 2026ByFELICE FRIEDSON/THE MEDIA LINE
HAMAS TERRORISTS secure the area as Egyptian workers accompanied by members of the Red Cross search for the last two remaining bodies of hostages -an Israeli soldier and a Thai national- from under the rubble of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern of Gaza Strip on December 1, 2025.

Israel to terminate Doctors Without Borders activity in Gaza after org. backtracks on promise

This comes despite MSF's claims just last week that it would provide the employee lists required by Israel in order to continue working in Gaza as an NGO.

FEBRUARY 1, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
PEOPLE AFFILIATED with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hold signs during a vigil to honor colleagues and others who have been killed during the war in Gaza outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, December 6, 2023.

MSF halts staff list submission to Israel, raises safety, transparency issues

MSF withholds staff lists from Israel, citing safety fears and a lack of assurances. The move follows months of engagement with Israeli authorities over new operational regulations.

JANUARY 30, 2026BySHOSHANA BAKER
View of humanitarian supplies for Gaza, with the logos of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and World Health Organization, stored at the Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses storing aid, in the Egyptian border town of El-Arish, Egypt, April 8, 2025.

Doctors Without Borders agrees to provide Palestinian staff list to Israel in order to overturn ban

MSF made the announcement on Saturday, just over three weeks after Israel announced the ban on 37 NGOs from operating in Palestine due to failure to register in time.

JANUARY 25, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER
PEOPLE AFFILIATED with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hold signs during a vigil to honor colleagues and others who have been killed during the war in Gaza outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, December 6, 2023.

Israel’s Doctors Without Borders decision is overdue, security comes first - editorial

The government has a clear stance. Gaza is a war zone run by Hamas, and humanitarian access can be exploited.

JANUARY 2, 2026ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Members of MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), carry banners and flags during a protest demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, at Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut, Lebanon, December 4, 2023.

Doctors Without Borders advanced anti-Israel narrative, maintained terror ties - exclusive

The well-known medical organization is one of several dozen NGOs prohibited from operating in Gaza and the West Bank since January 1.

JANUARY 1, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER
PEOPLE AFFILIATED with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hold signs during a vigil to honor colleagues and others who have been killed during the war in Gaza outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, December 6, 2023.

Why was Doctors Without Borders banned after Israel greenlit most Gaza aid groups?

What is the real story with the IDF's Doctors Without Borders ban?

JANUARY 1, 2026ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from aid trucks near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 2025.

Israel to suspend dozens of aid NGOs from Gaza operations after orgs. fail to renew registrations

The ministry said the registration requirement is intended to prevent the involvement of terrorist elements and to protect the integrity of humanitarian activity, citing past cases.

DECEMBER 31, 2025ByFRAIDY MOSER
Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from aid trucks near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 2025.

MSF voices concerns it may be barred from Gaza, Israel says it failed to comply with requirements

MSF did not cooperate with a government-required registration process and declined to provide Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs with a list of its employees, as mandated by a government decision.

DECEMBER 31, 2025ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinians who were wounded during protests at the Israel-Gaza border fence, wait to receive treatment outside a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders, in Gaza City September 17, 2018.