Attacks on Healthcare

Destroying Gaza’s Health Care System Is a War Crime

A man inspects the damage in a room at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 17, 2023, following Israeli bombardment. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES The ICC should prosecute Israelis responsible for bombing hospitals, denying access to medicines...

Russia is waging war on Ukrainian healthcare

Article initially published on July 5, 2020 in the Financial Times and written by Annie Sparrow. Read full article on ft.com

Health Care Under Fire

Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images Men inspecting a hospital damaged by an air strike in a rebel-controlled town, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, May 2017 Article initially published on June 23, 2022 in The New York Review of Books and written by Annie Sparrow Reviewed: Perilous...

Putin Is Targeting Ukrainian Hospitals. That’s a War Crime.

Workers attach a banner with a photo of a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher after the bombing of a maternity ward in Mariupol during Russia's war in Ukraine that is displayed as part of an exhibition at the railway station in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 25,...