In a scathing press conference, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) accused European governments of fuelling Gaza’s suffering through silence, complicity, and continued arms sales to Israel, warning that their inaction is enabling what MSF described as a “deliberate massacre” and “systematic ethnic cleansing” of the Palestinian people.

Standing before EU officials in Brussels, MSF’s Secretary General Christopher Lockyear pulled no punches: “This is one of the most horrific, brutal wars of our time. And the suffering in Gaza is beyond unbearable. It must stop now.”

For over 20 months, MSF teams have worked in Gaza under siege conditions, witnessing mass displacement, starvation, and the collapse of medical infrastructure. They now speak of patterns that amount to genocide, not abstractly, but through daily encounters with children burned by bombs, patients mutilated by drone fire, and families starved under blockade.

What enrages the organisation most is not only Israel’s military assault, but the West’s calculated indifference. “Europe has the tools, economic, legal, and political — to pressure Israel to open crossings, end attacks on hospitals, and allow unrestricted humanitarian aid,” MSF stated. “But instead, it has chosen empty slogans over meaningful action.”

Worse still, the very governments expressing concern continue to arm the assault. As Lockyear put it: “These weapons are the same ones killing the children we treat. This isn’t neutrality, it’s hypocrisy.”

MSF condemned the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-Israeli initiative they say replaces impartial relief with militarised, conditional aid. At least dozens have been shot dead at aid lines since the GHF’s launch in May, people who died not of hunger, but of a system that made survival a fatal risk.

At Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, now barely operational, MSF teams are overwhelmed by waves of casualties. “We’ve built field hospitals,” Lockyear said, “but they can’t replace real healthcare. What’s collapsing in Gaza is not just infrastructure, it’s every principle of humanitarian law.”

The organisation’s message to Europe is clear: stop arming the assault, enforce international law, and open Gaza’s gates. Anything less, they warn, is complicity.