09/16/2025September 16, 2025
‘No choice left’ for people in Gaza City, MSF coordinator in Gaza Strip tells DW
Jacob Granger, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza, told DW that the people in Gaza had no good options in determining whether to stay in Gaza City or attempt to move south in line with evacuation orders from Israel.
“It’s really important to understand that there’s no choice left for the population in Gaza City. They have the choice to stay in Gaza City and have restricted access to food, to water, to health services and increasing military operation or the choice to go south without anything — without proper shelter, just plastic sheeting tents, without proper access to water.”
“For a lot of them, if they are leaving the shelter they have in Gaza City, they are not sure they will be able to find shelter and access to food, water and medical services in the south,” he added.
Granger said that there are no safe routes in Gaza for people to flee.
“There’s nowhere safe in Gaza. It’s been 22 months,” he said. “A safe route in Gaza is something that does not exist.”
He told DW that evidence of destruction was all around him.
“We have clinics where we see the injured people arriving over there with open wounds, with missing legs, with missing arms,” he said about the situation in Gaza.
Regarding the availability of food and water, he said:
“We need to continue to deliver [humanitarian aid] in Gaza City because of the huge needs of the population, and we are taking risks because the Israeli government is not allowing safe access to Gaza City to humanitarian actors.”
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