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Doctors Without Borders says conditions for Gaza medics hard as ever despite truce
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A Palestinian boy, who was injured by gunfire while waiting for aid trucks entering the northern Gaza Strip through Zikim crossing, is taken out of an ambulance after arriving for medical care at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 27, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
Conditions for medics and patients in Gaza remain as severe as ever despite a nearly two-month truce in the territory, the president of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says in an AFP interview.
“It’s as hard as it’s ever been,” Javid Abdelmoneim says of conditions for medical staff operating in Gaza’s hospitals. He adds that patients were being given “substandard care” and that insufficient aid was entering the Palestinian territory.
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