Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF clinic in Gaza City (INT)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB246773

Date taken / Date Recorded 02/09/2025 8:27 PM

Country Palestinian Territories

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Ibrahim Nofal

Copyright Ibrahim Nofal

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m14s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1920px 510.89 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Dr. Wesam Sokkar, medical doctor, MSF

This is the worst stage, the worst period we have lived through

Dr.Fayez AlBarawi, medical doctor, MSF

All our dreams are lost.

Dreams, future, everything...

Fayez and Wesam are two doctors working in an MSF clinic in Gaza City. In early September, they described their daily life amidst the intensifying Israeli offensive on the north of the Strip.

Dr Faiz Alayan Al-Barawi

Sadly, the struggle starts at the very beginning of the day.

Before I even reach the clinic.

People in the streets, tents everywhere,

children carrying water gallons, helplessly chasing trucks

just to get some drinking water.

Walking in the street, you stumble over rubble.

Rubble is everywhere and roads are completely destroyed.

As soon as you walk into the clinic, you find around 200 to 300 patients

waiting since the early morning.

MSF clinic, Gaza City

Dr Wisam

People come here after having gone to several places that turned them away,

places that did not have the capacity to offer care.

Dr. Faiz Alayan Al-Barawi

Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate all of them,

because our medical staff’s capacity

cannot handle such overwhelming numbers.

When we tell a patient that we cannot admit anyone anymore,

they burst into tears.

.We are witnessing patients slowly dying

and we cannot do anything for them.

Dr Wisam

We see many children coming alone.

We hear family stories of houses bombed while they were inside,

or families displaced repeatedly, with no one listening to them.

So we try to give them psychosocial support.

Even we, the medical staff, are living through a very difficult period.

Perhaps the hardest since the beginning of the war.

The military offensive in Gaza city amounts to a death sentence for its inhabitants.

MSF calls for the immediate end to the use of evacuation orders as a means of forcible displacement, a lasting ceasefire, and the entry of humanitarian aid at scale.