for the president of MSF, “we are facing a campaign of annihilation of the population of Gaza” – Libération

Isabelle Defourny, of Doctors Without Borders, who was able to go to the enclave a month and a half ago, is alarmed in an interview by the arrival of winter while humanitarian aid is blocked or looted.

Flattened neighborhoods, mountains of rubble, lifeless bodies in the streets… The governorate of North Gaza today resembles a gigantic field of ruins. Since October 6, 2024, the Israeli army has been carrying out an offensive of unprecedented brutality in this territory where more than 270,000 inhabitants lived before the start of the war. The objective: to eradicate what the Jewish state considers to be a resurgence of Hamas in the northern part of the Palestinian enclave. Ground fighting, bombings and armed drones have killed more than a thousand people and displaced nearly 100,000, according to the UN. For Isabelle Defourny, president of Médecins sans frontières (MSF), this “ethnic cleansing” is part of a strategy carried out by the Israeli army.

You recently returned from the Gaza Strip, so-called “humanitarian” zone of Al-Mawasi. What does the Palestinian enclave look like after more than a year of war?

What is most striking is the massive destruction. We left Jordan to reach the enclave via the Kerem Shalom crossing point, under UN escort in armored vehicles. Upon entering Gaza, the scale of the ruins is striking. The so-called “humanitarian” zone is a cramped space where 1