A new report reveals over 3,600 attacks on health workers and facilities in conflict zones during 2024, marking a 15% increase from the previous year. The report indicates alarming trends, with Gaza and the West Bank experiencing the majority of incidents. The chair of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition highlighted the increasing threat to legal protections for health care during war, alongside recent legal challenges by nations against international accountability. The comprehensive data reveals numerous casualties and the detrimental impact on healthcare access amid ongoing violence.
In 2024, healthcare came under attack 10 times a day across the world's war zones. Each of these assaults brings terror, trauma, and, in too many cases, injury, destruction, and death.
More than a third of the attacks took place in Gaza and the West Bank, but there were also hundreds recorded in Ukraine, Lebanon, Myanmar, and Sudan.
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