Attacks on Health Care

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Medical staff inspect the damage at an impact site, following a missile strike from Iran on Israel, at Soroka Medical Center, in Beersheba, Israel, on June 19, 2025.

Hospital Attacks in Gaza and Israel: What Counts as a War Crime?

by Leonard S. Rubenstein, Feroze Sidhwa

Global attacks on hospitals and health care have become more frequent, but perpetrators have enjoyed near total impunity

Urbanization
A doctor wears a ribbon and an India map badge on his shirt, during a protest rally demanding justice following the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a hospital in Kolkata, in New Delhi, India, August 16, 2024.

What's Driving Violence Against Health Workers in India

by Christianez Ratna Kiruba

An attack against health-care workers is reported almost every other week

Cars are on fire after Russia's missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 10, 2022.
Governance

The Escalation of the Ukraine War and Global Health

by David P. Fidler

The war has entered a more dangerous phase with grim portents for health

Activists and supporters of the Right 2 Know campaign chant slogans as they hold a night vigil outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg September 19, 2011.
Governance

South Africa's Health-Care Whistleblowers Are Under Threat

by Ray Mwareya

Employees who flag nefarious efforts to fleece public health coffers put their jobs, families, and lives at risk

Health workers, two male and one female, wear red emergency outfits, stethoscopes, and bullet-proof vests as they pose beside their yellow ambulance at a hospital in Kharkiv.
Governance

War-Proofing Ukraine's Health System

An interview with Ukraine's former Deputy Minister of Health Pavlo Kovtoniuk

Russian president Vladimir Putin stands in front of a podium that says "End TB" with a bored expression on his face.
Governance

Will the WHO Sideline Russia Over Ukraine?

by Lillian Posner

Not if Russia withdraws first

A man clears rubble from a psychiatric hospital that was destroyed by Russian forces
Governance

From Aleppo to Mariupol

Attacks on medical facilities in Syria and Ukraine will leave lasting scars