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A woundend child arrives in Shifa Hospital, Gaza City. January 2009

Gaza interviews: the Israeli land attacks

Since the beginning of the land incursion into the Gaza Strip, 50 percent of casualties are reported to be women and children, according to official figures. Here, a Palestinian MSF doctor and Cecile Barbou, the MSF medical coordinator in Gaza, talk about the situation they are seeing on the ground and how the attcks are affecting those living in Gaza.

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An isolation unit in Kaluamba for suspected ebola cases. December 2008.

Congo (DRC) : The fight against Ebola continues

Last week, Médecins Sans Frontières sent a team of international staff to the ebola affected area of the Congo (DRC), where 12 people have already died.

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A Palestinian woman sits on the rubble of her destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. December 30, 2008.

Surgeons needed following Israeli land attacks

Following the first land incursion of Israeli forces, surgical services in the area are overwhelmed and surgeons specialised in vascular surgery are desperately needed.

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