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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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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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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/...

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.

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...

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

Yet another new element in Trump Administration campaign to undermine international humanitarian law www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And Don Beyer too

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.

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...

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.

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

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.