Former MSF leader says Doctors Without Borders are Hamas accomplices

Médecins Sans Frontières, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is an organization most assumed to be focused on providing much-needed aid and supplies in harsh environments without bias or favour. However, one of the organization’s former leaders is critical of the way MSF handled the situation in Gaza, even going so far as to say that its members acted as “accomplices of Hamas.”

Alain Destix, who worked as a doctor with Doctors Without Borders in the 1980s before taking over as the organization’s secretary-general in the 1990s, told Fox News Digital that the organization had moved away from its neutral humanitarian roots.

“Well, it was impossible at the time when I was Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders to be as biased as MSF – Doctors Without Borders – is now in Gaza. We defined ourselves as a neutral, impartial and humanitarian organization,” Distix told Fox News Digital. “I now believe that MSF in Gaza is really on our side [of] Hamas and against Israel.

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A building belonging to the medical charity Doctors Without Borders in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 21, 2024. (Magdy Fathi/Nour Photo via Getty Images)

He later added: “Americans need to know that MSF is no longer the organization it was 15 or 20 years ago. It has become a biased, biased, militant organization.”

On October 12, 2023, less than a week after Hamas carried out its brutal massacre and took more than 250 people hostage, Doctors Without Borders condemned the massacre But he also called for an end to Israeli operations in Gaza, without mentioning the hostages.

“MSF is horrified by the brutal mass killing of civilians committed by Hamas, and by the widespread attacks on Gaza, Palestine, which Israel is now pursuing,” the organization wrote. “MSF calls for an immediate halt to the indiscriminate bloodshed, and the creation of safe spaces and safe passage for people to access them as a matter of urgency.”

Beyond the organization’s condemnation of both the massacre and Israeli actions, Distix uncovered numerous social media posts by accounts allegedly belonging to MSF staff who showed up to celebrate the October 7 massacre. Distix explained to Fox News Digital that many of MSF’s employees in the Gaza Strip are Palestinians, not foreign workers.

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli raid on a house in Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip on July 1, 2025. (Reuters/Ramadan Abed)

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Distix admitted that for MSF to work in Gaza, it must work with Hamas, as the movement controls “all civil society and all medical facilities” in the Strip. He said that working alone was impossible during his tenure as Secretary-General, and that the organization would have said that it could not work with a “totalitarian and tyrannical regime.” Terrorist organization“.

“The only thing MSF can do is say, ‘No, we don’t want to be part of this. We have to withdraw from Gaza. We don’t want to become partners with a terrorist organization like Hamas,'” Destich told Fox News Digital.

MSF has faced scrutiny over its actions and statements regarding the situation in Gaza.

Earlier this year, MSF launched ads against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an organization supported by the United States and Israel. Doctors Without Borders accused the GHF of participating in “organized violence.”

GHF spokesman Chapin Fay called MSF’s accusations “false and disgraceful.” He said the organization was working to amplify misinformation.

Palestinians make their way with their belongings as they flee their homes after Israeli air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip on May 16, 2025. (Reuters/Mahmoud Issa)

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Last month, Rep. Elise Stefanik, the Republican attorney general, asked Pam Bondi Investigation of MSF under the anti-terrorism law. In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, Stefanik claimed that MSF’s attacks on GHF “reflect the propaganda continually pushed by Hamas and threaten to undermine the only large-scale humanitarian food operation currently operating in Gaza.”

Distex also noted in his interview with Fox News Digital that MSF was echoing the sentiments and statistics of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is run by Hamas. This included the rapid condemnation of the explosion that occurred at Al-Ahali Hospital.

While it was later discovered that the explosion was caused by a rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement that had not been fired properly, MSF has not corrected or deleted its condemnation, which is… It’s still available on X But he has a community note.

“Doctors Without Borders is lying, Doctors Without Borders is biased, Doctors Without Borders is biased, and Doctors Without Borders is complicit with Hamas,” Destich said.

Distix believes that the solution to the problem of MSF’s bias in Gaza is for the organization to leave the Strip.

He said, “If Doctors Without Borders withdraws, the humanitarian situation in Gaza will not change.”

Distix said he believes that without MSF’s presence in Gaza, there will still be doctors providing care to patients in need, and that the organization has “no added value” in the region.

Hamas terrorists stand in formation as Palestinians gather in a street to watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on February 8, 2025. (Magdy Fathi/Nour Photo via Getty Images)

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He pointed to previous moments when MSF prioritized ethics over existence, such as when it withdrew from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a decision taken during his tenure as Secretary-General.

In 1994, during the Rwandan genocide, part of the organization chose to leave, as they believed that staying would only legitimize the violence that was occurring.

Doctors Without Borders document He explains that the organization “was forced to choose between continuing to work in the camps, thus strengthening the power of the perpetrators of genocide over the refugees, or withdrawing from the camps and leaving the population in distress.”

Ultimately, the French section withdrew from the organization in late 1994, while the Dutch, Belgian and Spanish sections chose to remain. However, MSF Belgium and MSF Netherlands were forced to end their programs in July 1995.

Fox News Digital reached out to Doctors Without Borders for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Fox News Digital’s Beth Bailey contributed to this report.