Under attack for saving lives: A webinar on protecting healthcare in conflict
Join MSF to hear from our staff as they speak about their personal experiences of delivering healthcare in conflict, as well as the legal perspective of what the UK can and must do to stop attacks on healthcare.
22 April | 6pm-7.30pm
A decade ago, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to protect healthcare in conflict, making it clear: Healthcare is not a target.
But health workers and hospitals are increasingly under attack. From 2021 to 2024, the number of health workers injured and killed more than doubled.
Throughout the ongoing genocide in Gaza, nearly three years of violent conflict in Sudan, and recent escalations in the Middle East, doctors, nurses, and medical staff are being attacked for doing their jobs. Hospitals, ambulances, and clinics are increasingly seen as targets rather than places of safety, while patients are killed in their beds.
This is unacceptable.
Under international law, the UK has an obligation to speak out against healthcare under attack, and to hold perpetrators to account. But too often, the Government remains silent.