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Comms at MSF / Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders | Humanitarian action, mental health, cat memes | Pizza-powered marathon runner | Views mine

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Palestinian reporters killed, international reporters banned – Israel’s other Gaza war is over narrative Members of press and influencers covering devastation are being silenced despite protection under international law

"Israel is running two Gaza campaigns: one for military control of the strip; another for narrative control of how the world understands what happens there"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

12.08.2025 07:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza aid distribution declared ‘orchestrated killing’ by MSF Medical relief agency has treated more than 1,300 patients for wounds sustained near notorious GHF aid sites in Gaza.

Institutionalised starvation and dehumanisation
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

09.08.2025 20:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza: MSF finds 1 in 4 young children and pregnant women malnourished Israel's use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, as patients and healthcare workers themselves struggle to survive

“Those who go to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's food distributions know that they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet in their head.” - Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, MSF deputy medical coordinator in Gaza
msf.org.uk/article/gaza...

25.07.2025 10:21 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’

"Our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away": the message from more than 100 aid agencies including MSF
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

23.07.2025 06:58 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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@who.int staff residence in Deir al Balah was attacked 3 times today as well as its main warehouse

2 WHO staff & 2 family members were detained. 3 were later released, while one staff remains in detention.

WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff & protection of all its staff. #Gaza

21.07.2025 20:47 — 👍 96    🔁 71    💬 1    📌 5
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Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts

"MSF has a responsibility to act with moral clarity and humanitarian consistency in the face of mass atrocities. The same should apply to the UK government."

Our op-ed on Gaza by @docnat.bsky.social, in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

14.07.2025 09:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A message to the UK Government: MSF is witnessing a genocide in Gaza. And you are complicit.
msf.org.uk/issues/gaza-...

09.07.2025 11:20 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Israel-Gaza war live: one-week-old baby amongst 45 people killed in Gaza strikes as UN warns aid still being blocked Aid group says deliveries are just ‘a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over’

MSF: "The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving"
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

21.05.2025 12:33 — 👍 1    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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Siege of Gaza: MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe We are witnessing the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives

"We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza"

msf.org.uk/article/sieg...

14.05.2025 15:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza: MSF calls on UK government to take action on the humanitarian catastrophe The UK must uphold its UN obligations to protect civilians in Gaza, and publicly condemn the Israeli government

MSF UK calls on the Prime Minister to uphold the UK's obligations as a UN Security Council member, act under International Humanitarian Law to protect all civilians in Gaza, and publicly condemn the Israeli government for the atrocities it is inflicting.

msf.org.uk/article/gaza...

07.05.2025 16:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Gaza, inside the war 🔴 Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders documents 15 months of all-out war waged by the Israeli army against the Palestinians of #Gaza through information and testimonies collected by its t...

Data visualisation from MSF. This interactive feature compiles information and testimonies collected by our teams between October 2023 and February 2025 during the all-out war waged by the Israeli army against the people of Gaza
gazainsidethewar.com/en

07.05.2025 09:21 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Seven killed in South Sudan hospital and market bombing, charity says Doctors without Borders (MSF) said its hospital was attacked as fears grow of a return to civil war in South Sudan.

An MSF hospital in South Sudan - the only hospital treating a region of more than 110,000 people - has been bombed.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

04.05.2025 12:50 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Debrief: Dr Javid Abdelmoneim on the crisis in Sudan An experienced MSF medic shares his deeply personal story on the second anniversary of the conflict

Two years ago, MSF doctor Javid Abdelmoneim received a cryptic message from his cousin in Khartoum that said "Your dad is safe". But safe from what?

In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, Javid shares his deeply personal experience of returning to Sudan on assignment.

15.04.2025 09:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger, famine and attacks on refugee camps

"The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

15.04.2025 07:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza: MSF condemns Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital “We cannot go back to repeated attacks on healthcare," says MSF Head of Emergencies in Gaza

“We cannot go back to repeated attacks on healthcare facilities when the health system in Gaza is already hanging by a thread, and no supplies have entered in weeks."

msf.org.uk/article/gaza...

25.03.2025 17:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Gaza: MSF teams respond to “unacceptable massacres of civilians” by Israeli forces MSF teams are treating influxes of patients in southern and central Gaza

🚨"We woke up, at around 2 AM local time to 20 minutes of airstrikes and heavy artillery – just like the past 15 months of war. We are appalled and outraged by these new unacceptable massacres of civilians." - Claire Nicolet, MSF Head of Emergencies.

msf.org.uk/article/gaza...

18.03.2025 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Why has Israel resumed large-scale airstrikes on Gaza? Officials claim attacks will bring release of more hostages, but some suggest political factors at play for Netanyahu

"The grim reality is that the fragile two-month pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas is now over. It appears very unlikely that a deal that would end the new Israeli attacks can be achieved soon."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

18.03.2025 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

JD Vance: "Peace can only be arrived at with diplomacy."

Proceeds to cause huge diplomatic incident live on air.

28.02.2025 21:09 — 👍 506    🔁 63    💬 24    📌 1

A flawed and dangerous decision from a government so many expected better of

27.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David Miliband, a former Labour foreign secretary who now runs US aid charity the International Rescue Committee, has criticised Starmer for cutting the UK aid budget…

25.02.2025 16:21 — 👍 211    🔁 58    💬 27    📌 14
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Starmer announces big cut to UK aid budget to boost defence spending PM confirms rise in military spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 – three years earlier than planned

Shortsighted politics that will absolutely cost lives and credibility rather than prevent conflict
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

25.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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UK to reject 'dangerous journey' refugees citizenship The Home Office change has been condemned by the Refugee Council and some Labour backbench MPs.

A "clear breach" of the refugee convention
www.bbc.com/news/article...

12.02.2025 08:33 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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USAID: Freezing US foreign aid will result in humanitarian disaster MSF says the loss of services supported by USAID will affect millions of the world’s most vulnerable people

MSF urges the US government to immediately resume funding of critical medical and humanitarian aid.

Our statement on Trump's dismantling of USAID, from earlier this week: msf.org.uk/article/usai...

07.02.2025 22:13 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In terms of how empires fall stories turning the whole thing over to a ketamine addled tech baron and a band of incel teens is probably one of the most pathetic options

05.02.2025 03:56 — 👍 9147    🔁 1507    💬 227    📌 52
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‘If you are silent, you are complicit’: Layla Moran on Trump’s proposal to 'take over' Gaza Donald Trump wants the US to take control of Gaza and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, saying that Palestinians can resettle in other, neighbouring locations - a move prohibited by inter...

'If you care about a two state solution, then, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵."

@laylamoran.bsky.social calls on the government to stand up to 'bully' Trump over plans to take over Gaza.

articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq3Mvm2i5N...

05.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 170    🔁 46    💬 8    📌 2
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Explained: What to know about the armed conflict in DRC Emmanuel Lampaert answers three key questions about the crisis situation in the Kivus

Emmanuel Lampaert, MSF representative in DRC, explains the escalating situation in the northeast where clashes between armed groups and government forces have pushed tens of thousands of people from the homes
msf.org.uk/article/expl...

29.01.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI apps ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.

So, OpenAI doesn't like the idea of others taking their work and passing it off as their own 👀
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

29.01.2025 12:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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21.01.2025 04:30 — 👍 66657    🔁 15149    💬 787    📌 704

Four minutes into the new presidency and the richest man in the world is doing a nazi salute on global TV but don't worry the real problem is pronouns

20.01.2025 20:41 — 👍 279    🔁 73    💬 3    📌 1

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