World: Care in the crosshairs: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2025

Country: World Sources: Insecurity Insight, Safeguarding Health in Conflict Please refer to the attached file. A Decade After UNSCR 2286, the Promise to Protect Health Care in Conflict Remains Unfulfilled Care in the Crosshairs: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict in 2025 , released today by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC), documents 2,546 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care across 33 countries in 2025, including 790 incidents where hospitals were damaged or destroyed and 455 health workers killed. International humanitarian law prohibits attacks on health care, a commitment all 15 UN Security Council members reaffirmed when they unanimously adopted Resolution 2286 ten years ago. Yet perpetrators are rarely held to account, even as some hospitals and health workers continue to be strategically targeted. "In 2025, reported violence on health care rose in 13 countries. Today, as we release our 2025 findings, at least 18 first responders have been killed in Lebanon in sequential strikes targeting rescue workers responding to an initial air strike, while health facilities treating Ebola patients in eastern Congo are being set on fire as conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus spread online ," said Christina Wille, Executive Director of SHCC member Insecurity Insight , which oversaw data collection and analysis processes for the report. "When health workers are kidnapped, tortured, or killed, societies lose irreplaceable expertise not only for conflict injuries, but for the full range of health emergencies and basic needs that follow. War is already devastating to health, but attacking hospitals makes it doubly so: health needs surge while services are destroyed. Outbreaks spread, trauma rises, and preventative care is all ...

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