The explosion in populist leaders and ‘say anything’ politics has filtered down to lower level structures everywhere. Brazen mendacity seems totally acceptable and without consequences.

We seem so lost, how do we lead with integrity when there is no currency but lies and power?

Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate, especially friends in Palestine 🌙

'The other thing that we need to be able to do that we cannot do is evacuate patients, patients who cannot under this current circumstances receive care in Gaza and they need to be able to do that without prejudicing their right of return...' - Dr Amber Alayyan, MSF Deputy…

I am truly amazed by people who look back at these six months and just keep repeating, 'there was no other way.' What does that even mean? Every day, countless decisions were and are made. Humans have agency. There's *always* another way.

MSF extends our condolences to World Central Kitchen (WCK) and the families of the seven aid workers killed in an Israeli strike on 1 April. We are outraged by this deadly attack on humanitarian workers trying to provide food to people in dire need.

MSF is horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility. Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options.

We're horrified that Al-Shifa Hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility.

Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service.

Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options.

“If there is an attack on Rafah, we just don't know where to put the patients. There is no place for the patients to go.”

Léo Cans, our head of mission in #Gaza , says any attack on Rafah would be catastrophic and describes the conditions for people in the southern Gaza town.

#Gaza : At noon, March 31st 2024, an Israeli airstrike hit the yard of the Al Aqsa hospital compound where many internally displaced people are sheltering, just outside of the emergency room. People were killed and injured.

North West Regional Hospital in Tasmania is looking for ED registrars. Come and join us. careers.pageuppeople.com/759/cw/en/job/…

Anyone supplying weapons to Israel used in the 'indiscriminate' killing of civillians are 'complicit' in the Gaza conflict, including the US and UK, says the Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières.

Thank you Royal College of Emergency Medicine for your ongoing leadership in this space.

ACEM
ACEM President

Behind the numbers: Gaza’s unprecedented aid worker death toll: thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graph… (The New Humanitarian)

To try and understand the harrowing complexity of what is happening here in #Gaza is vital.

Still only scraping the surface of what the world needs to hear; this NPR piece goes some way.

We must, see, hear, listen and talk. MSF International

npr.org/2024/03/20/123…

Dr Amber Alayyan from Doctors Without Borders explains how, because of a lack of supplies, wounds can't be treated so they rot.

This is the full UN briefing on Gaza in NYC by senior doctors with decades of experience between them of providing care in Palestine, including my MSF colleague and friend Dr Amber Alayyan youtube.com/live/r8SKGsEi2…

Exciting that this piece of work is coming to fruition looking forward to reading it as it unfolds msfuk.unbounddocs.com/power-analysis…