Addressing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and all members of the Hellenic Parliament, MSF Greece calls for the following actions:

  • Protection of civilians: The Greek government must exercise all available diplomatic pressure on the state of Israel and its leadership to protect civilians in Gaza. A total ceasefire must be achieved without delay.

  • Humanitarian access: Greece must publicly defend international humanitarian law by condemning the use of food, water and medicine as tools of war, and should lead initiatives to ensure the unhindered delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid.

  • Protection of health infrastructure: Attacks on health facilities must be halted immediately as a matter of utmost urgency.

  • Medical evacuations: Greece must lead efforts to increase the evacuation of patients in need of urgent medical care. Alongside other EU countries, it should open its doors to receive patients trapped in Gaza requiring specialised treatment, while safeguarding their right to return after treatment.

The appeal is accompanied by a signature campaign and an open letter sent to Prime Minister Mitsotakis and all members of parliament.

The letter states:
“Gaza has become a mass grave. Since October 2023, Palestinians in Gaza have been slaughtered daily. More than 59,000 people have been killed – among them over 1,400 health workers, at least 180 journalists, and approximately 400 humanitarian workers. The number of injured exceeds 142,000. We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions that could lead to the complete erasure of Palestinian life in Gaza. We are witnessing a genocide – and the hypocrisy and inaction of the international community, which has allowed Israel to continue killing with total impunity.”

Condemning Israel’s tactics, MSF writes:

“The Israeli government openly defies the laws of war.
The deliberate use of famine as a weapon in Gaza has reached an unprecedented scale. What we are witnessing is inconceivable: an entire population deliberately deprived of food and water. Israeli forces commit daily crimes as people risk their lives to obtain mere crumbs.
Children tell their parents they want to go to paradise because at least paradise has food.
Massacres in food distribution areas occur almost daily.
The airdropping of humanitarian aid is ineffective, dangerous, and ultimately futile – a cynical act, given that roads, trucks, food and medicine are already available and ready to be transported into Gaza.”

MSF also highlights that nearly two million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced into less than 12% of the Gaza Strip. Military operations and raids continue across the West Bank. In January 2025, Israel launched the “Iron Wall” military operation in the northern West Bank, which is still ongoing. More than 42,000 people have been violently displaced, now surviving with severely limited access to food, water, and healthcare.

The organisation adds:

“The systematic and deliberate dismantling of the health system knows no bounds. Almost all hospitals have sustained damage in the course of the war – a tactic which causes death long after the bombs stop falling.”

According to the World Health Organisation, approximately 14,000 people in Gaza require urgent surgical and medical care outside Palestine. However, medical evacuations have dwindled. Nearly two-thirds of the patients who managed to leave Gaza for emergency treatment abroad did so prior to the closure of the Rafah crossing in May 2024.

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