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Israeli forces carry out violent hospital raids in ruthless display of force

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Israeli soldiers and police stormed a Palestinian hospital twice over the past week terrifying staff and patients and in some cases preventing doctors from providing emergency medical care to critically injured patients, said Amnesty International.

MSF urges G20 to take action on health issues

Thursday, July 6, 2017

MSF is calling on G20 leaders to turn the declaration made by their health ministers into concrete action that critical health issues such as drug-resistant infections and attacks on medical facilities and personnel in armed conflict must urgently be addressed.

'Staggering' number of attacks on health care workers reported in 2016

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

There was a “staggering” — yet ultimately unknown — number of violent attacks on health care workers, patients and facilities in 2016, stretching across at least 23 countries in conflict or states of political unrest, a new report has found.

Ending Impunity for Attacks on Health Care: Q&A with Leonard S. Rubenstein

Monday, May 15, 2017

Intense violence against health workers persisted in 2016—and accountability for the attacks remains inadequate or non-existent. Leonard Rubenstein, chair of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, discusses findings in the coalition's new report documenting attacks on health in 23 countries.

Six Months Alone: How Israel’s Blockade Kept a Gaza Mother and Her Newborn Daughter Apart

Friday, February 24, 2017

According to coalition members MAP and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, more than a third of all patients applying to leave Gaza for treatment elsewhere in the oPt or abroad last year were denied or did not receive an answer in time for their appointment.

Press Release: Heightened Violence and Attacks on Healthcare in Dara’a

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Coalition member Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is deeply alarmed by reports of systematic targeting of hospitals and medical infrastructure in Dara’a, Syria.

Statement Encourages WHO Data Collection on Attacks on Health

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Coalition member Save the Children gave a statement supported by the coalition at the 140th session of the WHO Executive Board, encouraging the WHO to finalize its methods to collect data on attacks on health care, and stressing the importance of disseminating the data to Member States.

PHR Urges Russian Medical Community to Protect Health in Syria

Monday, December 12, 2016

Coalition member Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) joins medical colleagues around the world in urging the Russian medical community to demand that its government ease the health care crisis in Syria. Health care continues to be used as a weapon of war: PHR has documented the deaths of 757 health workers and 382 attacks on medical facilities throughout the conflict.

Inside east Aleppo's last hospital: 'No space to walk'

Monday, November 28, 2016

The "last hospital" in east Aleppo is a grim site. The building is crowded and the injured lay all over its corridors. Blood lines the floors, and its smell - along with the sound of screams and cries - fill the air. Much of the surrounding area has been destroyed.

Gaza healthcare faces ‘real disaster’ due to fuel cuts

Saturday, November 26, 2016

The Palestinian health care system in the besieged Gaza Strip is facing a “real disaster” due to the shortage of fuel supplies for generators that provide electricity for hospitals, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned.

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