‘Healthocide’: experts warn of rise in targeting of health services in conflict

Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in Gaza

Targeting medics and hospitals in acts of war should be called healthocide", academics have urged, amid an increase in such attacks in recent years.

Health services are increasingly deliberately under attack and medics are facing violence and abuse in conflict zones around the world - in particular in Gaza, but also in Lebanon, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria and El Salvador.