WHAT CLUE
tells you a war
is truly dirty?
dust in
schools and
hospitals.

Targets Of The World

As a coalition of countries led by Saudi Arabia bombs thousands of civilians in Yemen and as the Syrian population is massacred, healthcare workers are target of attacks despite the principles of international humanitarian law.

The international community fails to react.

The bombing of hospitals has become commonplace. So has the – deliberate – slaughter of doctors, nurses, stretcher bearers and midwives, whatever their nationality.

The attackers know full well that one bullet to a doctor’s head kills dozens, hundreds of people.

A failure to act today, tolerating the intolerable, means being judged by History tomorrow.

Yemen

93

attacks on hospitals in two years

100+

healthcare facilities destroyed

55%

of the country’s hospitals
no longer functioning

8,000+

dead among the civilian population

14 million

people deprived of basic healthcare

6

doctors for 10,000 inhabitants in certain cities

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Syria

814

nursing staff killed in healthcare facilities

15,000

Syrian medical practitioners forced
to flee between 2011 and 2015

338

attacks on hospitals recorded in 2016

33

bombing raids on Kafr Zita Cave
Hospital in Hama since 2014

6

medical units supported by
DotW targeted in 2016

53

patients killed

50%-

of health centres and hospitals currently operational

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International humanitarian law is being flouted on a daily basis.
In areas that are suffering, doctors and nursing staff are now being targeted.


This is despite the fact that on 3 May 2016, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution strongly condemning acts of violence, attacks and threats directed at ill and injured patients, nursing staff, humanitarian workers and medical facilities.

More than a year after, nothing has changed. The international community is failing to honour its commitments. More serious yet is the fact that countries which are permanent members of the Security Council are directly or indirectly participating in violating these laws by providing military support and selling arms to certain States where international humanitarian law is disregarded.

Doctors of the World is today appealing to the Member States of the United Nations to:

Enforce Resolution 2286 relating to protecting health workers and medical facilities;

Enforce Resolution 2286 relating to protecting health workers and medical facilities;

Force fighters to immediately respect the protection of civilians;

Force fighters to immediately respect the protection of civilians;

Bring an end to the targeting of healthcare staff.

Bring an end to the targeting of healthcare staff.

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