Gaza: MSF is accused of “moral bankruptcy” in plan to share Palestinian staff’s details with Israel

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Source: BMJ

Original: http://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s174.short?rss=1...

Published: 2026-01-27T08:16:10-08:00

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) plans to share details of its Palestinian staff with Israel to continue humanitarian work in Gaza and the West Bank. They previously declined to share this information due to concerns about employee safety. After extensive discussions with Palestinian colleagues and Israel, the list of names was prepared as an exceptional measure. The decision sparked a strong reaction online, with people threatening to cancel donations and some doctors accusing MSF of moral bankruptcy and failure to protect staff. MSF was one of dozens of organizations that initially rejected Israel's registration system for humanitarian actors in the region. In Gaza, 15 Palestinian MSF staff were killed and aid deliveries were stopped due to non-compliance with Israeli demands. The organization operates in 20 medical facilities, where it provides care for every fifth hospital bed and receives every third birth. Since the beginning of the war, they have conducted more than 1.5 million outpatient consultations and treated more than 100,000 cases of injuries last year.