Why Gaza health care facilities and workers have suffered so much violence By Leonard RubensteinOct. 14, 2023

https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/14/gaza-israel-hospitals-health-care-warzones/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=278404014&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8QCOM2xxPNIGMvyanoUcqThciD8Stc0qv2mrcYkC4q_XO7l18i6FgIOrQRY4rKvGhgQC4Cgql5qAKNLu4fMcjGJcLcMw&utm_content=278404014&utm_source=hs_email In a little more than a week since the Hamas terror attack on Israel, thousands have been killed and wounded, a toll made worse by 30 incidents of violence against health facilities, ambulances, and health workers in Gaza (a figure not yet verified) in the first five days of war. Violence against health care is hardly unique to this conflict, Leonard Rubenstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reminds us in a STAT First Opinion, but why has there been so much damage, death, and injury to health care in Gaza? The author of “Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care From the Violence of War,” he suggests that procedures agreed upon during previous conflicts to keep medical care safe have been abandoned. “Now, visceral and justified outrage at Hamas’ atrocities and taking of hostages has led to a declining commitment to conduct combat operations in accordance with the law,” he writes. Read more. https://insecurityinsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1..-07-x-October-2023-Attacks-on-Health-Care-in-Israel-and-the-oPt.pdf?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=278404014&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8AHrPJY6ZrpTfkxANox80PVtid4_h7eVrUQCQUG6Un-1ocw9t3t3pIlyTlQU1C1sAryeh90t0ZWJE4yuJQPD5_TXNWvA&utm_content=278404014&utm_source=hs_email