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U.N. Criticized Over Failure to Stop Hospital Attacks in Conflict Zones

(United Nations) — The U.N. Security Council came under sharp criticism Wednesday for its failure to implement a resolution aimed at protecting medical facilities and staff in conflict zones from Syria to Yemen and Afghanistan. The U.N.’s most powerful body held a meeting on health care in armed conflict that by coincidence began just hours after two hospitals on rebel-held Aleppo were bombed, highlighting the lack of action to protect them. Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, blamed the failure on “a lack of political will — among member states fighting in coalitions, and those who enable them.” She told the council that the failure is evident in hospital attacks since the resolution’s adoption in May which have left civilians in war with “less, if any, access to life-saving medical care.” “Many attacks … are brushed off as mistakes,” Liu said.

 

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