Medecins Sans Frontieres or Doctors without Borders, has expressed concern over “controlled” humanitarian access in Gaza.
The US government recently announced a new aid plan for private firms to deliver aid to Gaza instead of UN agencies. MSF says this decision may lead to the intentional loss of Palestinian lives.
“Making aid conditional on forced displacement and vetting of the population is another tool in the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population,” reads an official statement issued by MSF.
MSF says the trick may limit aid delivery and “subjugates it to Israeli military occupation objectives.”
UN Security Council Resolution 2720 states that all parties to the conflict must adhere to unhindered humanitarian access through the Gaza Strip and calls for the release of hostages and the opening of humanitarian corridors.
“Reaffirming that all parties to conflicts must adhere to their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, as applicable,” the resolution partly reads.
On April 25, 2025, the World Food Programme (WFP) said food was out of stock in Gaza. The UN agency said the border was not permeable for aid delivery. MSF says 32 percent of patients they have been receiving for the last two weeks have been malnourished.
“MSF medical teams in Gaza City have seen a 32 per cent increase in the number of patients presenting with malnutrition over the past two weeks,” the statement.
The conflict
The conflict between Israel and Palestine restarted after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, from the Gaza Strip to the Gaza envelope in Southern Israel.
Over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war started. On May 7, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohamed Mustafa, announced that Gaza was a famine zone and called for an urgent response from the UN.
The United Nations’ Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern that children are at risk of hunger, disease and death.
On March 18, 2025, a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel ended fighting for two months. The deal was such that both parties to the conflict would exchange hostages. Although some hostages were released, some were not.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was quoted as saying that the war in Gaza was not possible if Hamas were not defeated. The Israeli attack on Gaza on Wednesday killed 84 people in northern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
