MSF’s frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza.
Over a seven-week period from early June to late July 2025, MSF’s two primary healthcare centres in Rafah received 1,380 casualties, including 28 dead bodies, coming from GHF sites. Among the injured were 174 people with gunshot wounds, including women and children. As part of our response to mass casualties from GHF-run distribution sites, MSF teams treated 71 children with gunshot wounds, 25 of them under 15 years old. We triaged an eight-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the chest and a five-year-old boy with severe head trauma, both of them injured near the GHF sites. We worked to stabilise injured children who arrived from the distribution sites alone, dazed and with little chance of survival.