Middle East Emergency Update

Emergency Medical Care Needed in the Middle East

Across Lebanon and Iran, families are being forced from their homes—many without access to medical care, clean water, or support.

Emergency Medical Care Needed Now

As violence intensifies, millions of people are living in fear. Bombing continues across cities and villages and the number of casualties is rising.

Conflict is escalating rapidly across the Middle East. Following recent strikes and retaliatory attacks, violence is spreading across multiple countries putting millions of civilians at risk. Bombing continues to hit populated areas, and casualties are rising.

Our Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams are adapting their response on the ground, closely monitoring urgent and rapidly evolving humanitarian needs.

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The Current Situation in the Middle East

What is happening right now

Civilians, hospitals, health facilities and other essential infrastructure must be protected at all times.

Violence is rapidly escalating across the Middle East. Airstrikes by the US and Israeli forces in Iran are hitting cities, towns, and densely populated areas. Families are fleeing escalating bombings across the Middle East. Many have no access to care as hospitals and essential services are under immense strain.

Our teams are adapting programmes across the region to respond and closely monitoring people’s quickly evolving humanitarian needs but we need your support. MSF teams in Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon can respond to crises like these thanks to the support of our global community of supporters.

When a crisis hits, you help us go where the needs are greatest.

What MSF is doing

Before the crisis, 6,000 medical consultations were being delivered in Iran per month. The needs now are even greater. In Lebanon, MSF mobile clinics in Saida are already treating displaced people on arrival, providing psychological first aid to traumatised families and supporting overcrowded shelters with essential resources. As more people flee, teams are preparing to expand rapidly into newly affected areas. In Iran, thousands of consultations were being provided every month even though clinics are now operating under extreme constraints. Some facilities have closed due to heavy bombing.

6,000

6,

medical consultations per month were delivered in Iran by MSF before the crises. Now the demand has increased.

Thousands forced to flee "Families who were slowly beginning to recover from previous fighting are being told to leave their homes. Some have been stranded on the roads with children, elderly relatives and sick family members, facing extremely harsh conditions.” - Francesca Quinto - MSF Programme Manager

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