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The number of attacks on health care in armed conflict has dramatically increased over the past five years. I discuss what is driving the attacks and what needs to be done with
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December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The number of attacks on health care in armed conflict has dramatically increased over the past five years. I discuss what is driving the attacks and what needs to be done with
@drjoshs.bsky.social publichealth.jhu.edu/headlines/pu...
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I write about the need for a reckoning for attacks on health care in Gaza and an end to the erosion of the critical norms for protection of hospitals, the wounded and sick and their caregivers -- and how to achieve it. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/a-re...
A Reckoning for Attacks on Health in Gaza | Think Global Health
Governments and international agencies should condemn both violations of humanitarian law and attempts to weaken its protections
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October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I write about the need for a reckoning for attacks on health care in Gaza and an end to the erosion of the critical norms for protection of hospitals, the wounded and sick and their caregivers -- and how to achieve it. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/a-re...
Colleagues Joe Amon and Rohini Haar and I discuss the normalization of attacks on health care in conflict in Gaza and beyond and what can be done to end impunity for them. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Attacks on healthcare in war are being steadily normalized—we need to end impunity
International humanitarian law is being steadily undermined, warn Leonard Rubenstein and colleagues
On 25 August 2025, Israeli tanks shelled Nasser Hospital, one of the largest in Gaza, and which ha...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Colleagues Joe Amon and Rohini Haar and I discuss the normalization of attacks on health care in conflict in Gaza and beyond and what can be done to end impunity for them. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Colleagues Joe Amon and Rohini Haar and I discuss how attacks on health care are being normalized and what can be done to end impunity for them www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Attacks on healthcare in war are being steadily normalized—we need to end impunity
International humanitarian law is being steadily undermined, warn Leonard Rubenstein and colleagues
On 25 August 2025, Israeli tanks shelled Nasser Hospital, one of the largest in Gaza, and which ha...
www.bmj.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Colleagues Joe Amon and Rohini Haar and I discuss how attacks on health care are being normalized and what can be done to end impunity for them www.bmj.com/content/390/...
.@ferozesidhwa.org and I show that Israel’s wholesale destruction of the entire health sytem in Gaza, and the death and suffering it has brought, cannot be remotely justified by its claims of Hamas misuse of hospitals for military purposes
Of the 3,623 hospital attacks recorded globally last year, 26% occurred in Gaza, where 0.03% of the world's population lives.
✍️: @ferozesidhwa.org and @lenrubenstein.bsky.social
✍️: @ferozesidhwa.org and @lenrubenstein.bsky.social
Hospital Attacks in Gaza and Israel: What Counts as a War Crime? | Think Global Health
Global attacks on hospitals and health care have become more frequent, but perpetrators have enjoyed near total impunity
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July 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
.@ferozesidhwa.org and I show that Israel’s wholesale destruction of the entire health sytem in Gaza, and the death and suffering it has brought, cannot be remotely justified by its claims of Hamas misuse of hospitals for military purposes
Stunning @nytimes video investigation of Israeli Defense Forces killing of 14 Palestinian emergency responders, lying about it, followed by an IDF investigation that was a whitewash - and that it was part of a pattern of attacking ambulances and medical convoys www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...
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May 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Stunning @nytimes video investigation of Israeli Defense Forces killing of 14 Palestinian emergency responders, lying about it, followed by an IDF investigation that was a whitewash - and that it was part of a pattern of attacking ambulances and medical convoys www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Yet another attack in Nasser Hospital in Gaza targeted at a wounded Hamas fighter receiving treatment for wounds. One of the most fundamental rules of the Geneva Conventions from their inception is not to attack or kill wounded soldiers. Israel crossed yet another line bbc.com/news/article...
Israeli strike at Gaza's Nasser Hospital kills Hamas official and aide
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said medical staff had been injured and some of the hospital destroyed.
bbc.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Yet another attack in Nasser Hospital in Gaza targeted at a wounded Hamas fighter receiving treatment for wounds. One of the most fundamental rules of the Geneva Conventions from their inception is not to attack or kill wounded soldiers. Israel crossed yet another line bbc.com/news/article...
Yet another new element in Trump Administration campaign to undermine international humanitarian law www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war
The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
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March 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Yet another new element in Trump Administration campaign to undermine international humanitarian law www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Re medical abuse at Sde Teimen see Physicians and the Push for Accountability for Alleged Abuse of Gazan Prisoners Detained by Israel www.justsecurity.org/104150/physi...
Physicians and the Push for Accountability for Alleged Abuse of Gazan Prisoners Detained by Israel
Torture and inhuman treatment of Gazan detainees, which amount to war crimes, are putting Israeli medical stuff in a compromised position.
www.justsecurity.org
February 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Re medical abuse at Sde Teimen see Physicians and the Push for Accountability for Alleged Abuse of Gazan Prisoners Detained by Israel www.justsecurity.org/104150/physi...
Five iDF soldiers charged for assault abd sexuel abuse at notorious Sde Teimen detention csmp but no indication of investigations of commanders or ministers whose detention policies were designed to ge abusive and were. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
Israeli Military Prosecutor Charges Five Soldiers in Abuse of Palestinian Detainee
Lawyers representing one of the soldiers said they have presented arguments that deny the charges against the reservists.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Five iDF soldiers charged for assault abd sexuel abuse at notorious Sde Teimen detention csmp but no indication of investigations of commanders or ministers whose detention policies were designed to ge abusive and were. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
A great vindication for a courageous human rights leader
Şebnem Korur Fincancı’s statements should not even have warranted an investigation, let alone justify a criminal prosecution.
Turkish authorities must end their punitive use of the criminal justice system, that aims to harass and prevent human rights defenders like Fincancı doing their work.
Turkish authorities must end their punitive use of the criminal justice system, that aims to harass and prevent human rights defenders like Fincancı doing their work.
February 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A great vindication for a courageous human rights leader
Must read report by Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on attacks on hospitals in Gaza and Israel's breaches of the law. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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January 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Must read report by Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on attacks on hospitals in Gaza and Israel's breaches of the law. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Assad must be brought to justice for his brutality against his own people, including for his attacks on hospitals, which along with those of Putin, number more than 650.
With the Syrian leader now on the run, the prospect of bringing him to justice for his crimes is no longer theoretical, Annie Sparrow and Kenneth Roth write.
Assad Must Face Justice for His Government’s Atrocities
With the Syrian leader now on the run, the prospect of bringing him to justice for his crimes is no longer theoretical.
foreignpolicy.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Assad must be brought to justice for his brutality against his own people, including for his attacks on hospitals, which along with those of Putin, number more than 650.