Ending attacks Against Health Care personnel and facilities in military Conflicts

A very disturbing trend in recent military conflicts!

Let the international war crimes tribunal against Putin the Terrible and his accomplices begin immediately, preferably in Nuremberg, Germany!

"... In recent years, the health and human rights community has documented increasing numbers of attacks on health care—the arrest, detention, and killing of health care workers, the destruction of hospitals and clinics, and attacks on patients—in the context of civil and cross-border conflicts. In Syria alone, Physicians for Human Rights has documented 601 attacks on medical facilities. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has to date included more than 600 attacks on health care. Following the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol, a heartbreaking image of a pregnant woman on a stretcher circulated in the news (neither she nor her child survived). And the nonprofit Insecurity Insight documented more than 4,094 attacks worldwide from 2016 through 2020. But to date, despite long-standing international prohibitions on attacking health care workers and health facilities, there has been just a single international prosecution for this widespread crime, let alone convictions.  ..."

Ending Violence Against Health Care in Conflict | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine Systematic attacks on health facilities and targeting of health workers have become a go-to strategy of modern warfare. What will it take to end these crimes?

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