Doctors Without Borders reduces operations at Gaza hospital over security concerns

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), commonly known arsenic Doctors Without Borders, suspended noncritical aesculapian operations astatine Gaza’s Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis, citing information concerns.

MSF said it made the decision, arsenic of Jan. 20, owed to concerns astir the absorption of the infirmary and what it described arsenic a signifier of unacceptable incidents wrong the compound. 

The suspension had not been wide reported astatine the time, and it was not instantly wide erstwhile the determination was archetypal publically posted.

MSF’s often asked questions page, wherever the update appears, shows it was past revised connected Feb. 11.

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A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) poster and different informational notices are seen connected a doorway astatine Nasser Hospital arsenic patients look difficulties accessing attraction successful Khan Yunis, Gaza, connected Jan. 15, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In caller months, the planetary aesculapian humanitarian assistance radical said unit and patients person reported the beingness of equipped and sometimes masked men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients and the suspected question of weapons connected infirmary grounds.

"While nary of these incidents occurred successful parts of the infirmary compound wherever MSF works, they airs superior information threats to our teams and patients," MSF wrote connected its website.

"MSF formally expressed its beardown interest to applicable authorities and emphasized the incompatibility of specified violations with our aesculapian mission. Hospitals indispensable stay neutral, civilian spaces, escaped from subject beingness oregon activity, to guarantee the harmless and impartial transportation of aesculapian care," the radical continued. "MSF calls connected each equipped groups, Hamas, and Israeli forces to respect aesculapian facilities and guarantee the extortion of civilians."

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Palestinian children person aesculapian attraction astatine Nasser Hospital amid a emergence successful influenza and respiratory infections successful Khan Yunis, Gaza, connected Jan. 14, 2026. (Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In a connection issued Saturday, Nasser Hospital rejected what it called "false, unsubstantiated, and misleading allegations" by MSF regarding the beingness of weapons oregon equipped groups wrong the facility.

"These allegations are factually incorrect, irresponsible, and airs a superior hazard to a protected civilian aesculapian facility. The Gaza Strip is nether an utmost and prolonged authorities of exigency resulting from systematic attacks connected civilian institutions," it said. "Under these conditions, isolated unlawful actions by uncontrolled individuals and groups person occurred crossed society, including attempts by immoderate to transportation weapons."

Hospital officials said a civilian constabulary beingness had been arranged to assistance safeguard patients, unit and infrastructure and called connected MSF to retract its claims and reaffirm its committedness to aesculapian neutrality.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday connected X that it has quality indicating Hamas is utilizing Nasser Hospital arsenic a office and subject post, reiterating long-standing allegations that the militant radical embeds operations wrong civilian facilities successful Gaza.

Nasser Hospital successful Khan Yunis, Gaza, connected Jan. 29, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"For implicit 2 years, the IDF and the defence constitution has warned astir the cynical usage by violent organizations successful Gaza of hospitals and humanitarian shelters arsenic quality shields to conceal violent activity," it wrote.  

Hamas has antecedently denied utilizing hospitals oregon different civilian facilities for subject purposes.