Palestinians inspect the debris at the site of Israeli strikes on a tent camp for displaced people in the Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2025. (Credit: AFP.)
NGO Doctors Without Borders accused Israel on Wednesday of allowing only "ridiculously insufficient" aid into Gaza given the territory's needs, merely to avoid being accused of "imposed starvation on the population."
"This plan is a way of instrumentalizing aid, turning it into a tool for the military objectives of the Israeli forces," said Pascale Coissard, MSF emergency coordinator in Khan Younis, Gaza, in a statement.
The aid permitted into the Gaza Strip, a hundred trucks since Monday according to Israeli authorities, "is just a smokescreen." According to MSF, as the siege — which Israel imposed on Gaza in early March to force Hamas to release the hostages it still holds — "continues."
"The current authorization of 100 trucks per day, while the situation is so critical, is utterly trivial," insisted the NGO. The majority of the Gaza population, more than 2 million people, relies almost entirely on the aid entering the narrow Palestinian territory devastated by intense bombings and military operations conducted since the bloody attacks by Hamas in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
MSF also indicates that at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged or partially or totally put out of service over the past week by the advancement of Israeli ground operations, intensification of airstrikes, and widespread evacuation orders.
"On the morning of May 19, MSF teams reported hearing nearly one strike per minute in Khan Younis, between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.," the NGO highlighted in its statement. One of these strikes hit the Nasser hospital compound, 100 meters from the intensive care unit and the hospitalization service managed by MSF, it specified. "This is the third time in two months that the Nasser hospital compound has been hit, once again depriving people of treatment and care."
The organization also denounced the large-scale evacuation orders by the Israeli army, which limit the ability to provide care. On May 19 "an evacuation order covering almost the entire eastern part of Khan Younis, bordering the Nasser hospital, forced people to move immediately to the Al Mawasi area." "The site management group estimates that more than 138,900 people have been forcibly displaced between May 15 and May 20," the NGO noted.
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