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Docs With out Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is a corporation that the majority assume is targeted on delivering a lot wanted help and provides in harsh environments with out bias or favor. Nevertheless, one of many group’s former leaders is criticizing how MSF has dealt with the state of affairs in Gaza, even going as far as to say that its members have acted as “accomplices of Hamas.”
Alain Destexhe, who labored as a health care provider with MSF within the Eighties earlier than occurring to function the group’s secretary common within the Nineties, advised Fox Information Digital that the group moved away from its neutral, humanitarian roots.
“Nicely, it will have been unimaginable on the time once I was secretary common of MSF to be as biased as MSF — Docs With out Borders — is now in Gaza. We had been defining ourselves as a impartial, neutral and humanitarian group,” Destexhe advised Fox Information Digital. “I feel now MSF in Gaza is de facto taking the aspect [of] Hamas and in opposition to Israel.”
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A constructing belonging to the medical charity Docs With out Borders (MSF) within the al-Mawasi space, west of Khan Yunis, within the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 21, 2024. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos)
“Individuals have to know that Docs With out Borders just isn’t anymore the group that it was 15 or 20 years in the past. It has grow to be a biased, partial and militant group,” he later added.
On Oct. 12, 2023, lower than per week after Hamas carried out its brutal bloodbath and took greater than 250 individuals hostage, MSF condemned the slaughter but additionally referred to as for an finish to Israel’s actions in Gaza, making no point out of the hostages.
“Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians perpetrated by Hamas, and by the huge assaults on Gaza, Palestine, now being pursued by Israel,” the group wrote. “MSF requires a right away cessation to the indiscriminate bloodshed, and the institution of secure areas and secure passage for individuals to achieve them as a matter of urgency.”
Past the group’s condemnation of each the bloodbath and Israeli actions, Destexhe uncovered a number of social media posts on accounts allegedly belonging to MSF staffers showing to have fun the Oct. 7 bloodbath. Destexhe defined to Fox Information Digital that a lot of MSF’s workers within the Gaza Strip are Palestinians, not overseas employees.
Palestinians examine the positioning of an Israeli strike on a home that happened in Zawayda within the central Gaza Strip on July 1, 2025. (REUTERS/Ramadan Abed)
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Destexhe acknowledged that so as to function in Gaza, MSF has to work with Hamas, as the phobia group has management over “all civil society and all of the medical amenities” within the enclave. He stated working alone would have been unimaginable throughout his tenure as secretary common and that the group would have stated it couldn’t work with “a totalitarian and terrorist group.”
“The one factor that MSF can do is to say, ‘no, we do not wish to be a part of this. We’ve to stop Gaza. And we do not wish to grow to be accomplices with a terrorist group like Hamas,'” Destexhe advised Fox Information Digital.
MSF has confronted scrutiny over its actions and statements concerning the state of affairs in Gaza.
Earlier this 12 months, MSF launched advertisements in opposition to the Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF), a U.S.- and Israel-backed group. MSF accused GHF of partaking in “systemized violence.”
GHF spokesperson Chapin Fay referred to as MSF’s accusations “false and disgraceful.” He stated the group was amplifying misinformation.
Palestinians make their means with belongings as they fled their houses, after Israeli air strikes, within the northern Gaza Strip Might 16, 2025. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa)
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Final month, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., requested that Lawyer Common Pam Bondi examine MSF below the Anti-Terrorism Act. In a letter obtained by Fox Information Digital, Stefanik claimed MSF’s assaults on GHF “mirror propaganda constantly pushed by Hamas and threaten to undermine the one large-scale humanitarian meals operation at present working in Gaza.”
Destexhe additionally famous in his interview with Fox Information Digital that MSF was echoing the feelings and statistics of the Gaza Well being Ministry, which is run by Hamas. This included the swift condemnation of a blast that occurred at al-Ahali Hospital.
Whereas it was later found that the explosion was attributable to a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired, MSF neither corrected nor deleted its condemnation, which is nonetheless out there on X however has a neighborhood observe.
“MSF is mendacity, MSF is partial, MS is biased, and MSF are accomplices of Hamas,” Destexhe stated.
Destexhe believes the answer to MSF’s bias downside in Gaza is for the group to depart the enclave.
“If MSF withdraws, the humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza just isn’t going to vary,” he stated.
Destexhe stated he thinks that with out MSF in Gaza, there would nonetheless be docs attending to sufferers in want and that the group doesn’t “have any added worth” within the space.
Hamas terrorists stand in formation as Palestinians collect on a avenue to look at the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Pink Cross workforce in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Feb. 8, 2025. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos)
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He recalled earlier moments when MSF prioritized ethics over presence, resembling when it pulled out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a choice made throughout his tenure as secretary common.
In 1994, through the Rwandan genocide, a part of the group made the selection to depart, as they thought staying would solely legitimize the violence that was going down.
An MSF doc explains that the group “was pressured to decide on between persevering with to work within the camps, thereby additional strengthening the facility of the génocidaires over the refugees or withdrawing from the camps and leaving a inhabitants in misery.”
In the end, the French part of the group withdrew in late 1994, whereas the Dutch, Belgian and Spanish sections selected to stay. Nevertheless, MSF Belgium and MSF Holland had been pressured to finish their packages in July 1995.
Fox Information Digital reached out to MSF for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Fox Information Digital’s Beth Bailey contributed to this report.
