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Protecting Health Care in Conflict: 10 Years After UN Resolution 2286. Robert S. Lawrence and health and human rights scholar @lenrubenstein.bsky.social reflect on the promise of an international effort to protect health workers and facilities in armed conflict nam.edu/news-and-ins...

The attack on the highly respected Pasteur Institute in Iran, a building dedicated to science, may well be a war crime. But the ICC lacks jurisdiction unless Iran asks it, based on acts committed in its territory, and that too seems unlikely given Iran's own conduct.

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...

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/...

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

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...

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...

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.