Dr Javid Abdelmoneim

International President of MSF

About the author

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim is the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He worked as an emergency doctor in Gaza in 2024, primarily in Nasser hospital.

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In both Gaza and the West Bank, Israeli policies are devastating Palestinian health with deadly consequences.

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / An injured boy receives treatment at a hospital ward in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 7, 2026, following a reported Israeli attack in the Mawasi area in Khan Yunis. Violence continues in Gaza despite a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in place since October 2025. At least 1,072 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the truce took effect, according to the territory's health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Massacres at the start of the war in Sudan should have shocked the world into action. They didn’t.

Sudan's RSF fighters celebrate in the streets of el-Fasher in Darfur

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