The US and the UK are belatedly lobbying Israel for restraint (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine).5 Today’s wars and conflicts pay scant heed to the Geneva Conventions. They care little for deaths of civilians, attacks on humanitarian workers, or targeting of health facilities and health professionals. Civilian deaths are “collateral damage.” Hospitals are “legitimate targets.”The world order has utterly failed civilians, health professionals, and humanitarian workers. Attacks on hospitals and their staff are now commonplace in conflict, an instrument of battle, conducted with impunity and invariably unpunished. Our moral, non-negotiable, duty must be to support and ensure the protection of health facilities, health professionals, and vulnerable people in conflict zones.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2023 13:32 UTC