Our hope for the new year is for LGBTQI+ people to feel safe seeking health care. Everyone should have access to high quality, dignified care.

Attack in Al-Mawasi: This morning, some of our colleagues were surrounded by bombing and heavy shooting for hours. We’re deeply concerned for the safety of our colleagues and patients across the Gaza Strip. We need an immediate and sustained #CeasefireNow.

Nowhere is safe in Gaza and no one is spared. "There is an 11-month-old in critical condition with a traumatic brain injury as well as a 7-year-old boy on a ventilator with penetrating abdominal wounds who may not survive the night." In the evening of December 8, following a bombing in southern Gaza, our medical team at the field hospital in Deir al-Balah received an influx of mass casualties, including four children.

WEST BANK UPDATE: According to information gathered by MSF teams on December 3 in Tubas, West Bank, Israeli forces raided and opened fire inside the Turkish Hospital, with which MSF collaborates, detaining staff, intimidating patients, and causing damage to the emergency room. During this hour-long raid, five medical staff were detained and one person was wounded. Medical staff on site were threatened at gunpoint and subjected to aggressive questioning. Patients were told to stay still or they would be shot and killed. “This violent incursion is unacceptable and shocking”, says Karine Robert, MSF deputy head of mission for Palestine. This is one of many attacks on health care in the West Bank in recent months. MSF calls for the protection and respect of medical facilities, staff, and patients.