Doctors Without Borders has warned that it may be forced to exit Gaza following Israel’s decision to bar the organisation’s operations, citing restrictions that make its work untenable. The warning is stark: one of the world’s most respected humanitarian medical groups is being pushed out of a conflict zone at the very moment when civilian need is most acute.

Israel now stands as the first country to impose an effective ban on Doctors Without Borders. The organisation has operated in war zones governed by militias, dictatorships, and collapsed states. That it now faces exclusion by a state long........

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