Image: The MSF Trauma Center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, following the US airstrike on the facility in October 2015. Image by Andrew Quilty.
Getting Serious About Protecting Health Care in War
by Leonard Rubenstein // July 28, 2020
After years of indifference to examining whether its rules of engagement and other operational directives and practices contribute to the scourge of violence against health workers, hospitals, ambulances, and patients, the Pentagon may finally be forced to act. On July 20, the House of Representatives adopted a seemingly obscure but potentially pathbreaking bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. The Senate conferees should agree to the provision, which its bill lacks.