Post by Physicians for Human Rights

🚨Ten years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution #2286, attacks on health care in conflict continue at an alarming scale. ⚕️ The 2025 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report “Care in the Crosshairs”, drawing on data collected by Insecurity Insight, documented 2,546 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care across 33 countries and territories in 2025. The findings are stark: 🏥790 incidents involving damage or destruction of health facilities 🥼 455 health workers killed ⛑️ 218 kidnapped 🚑 263 arrested or detained This year’s report highlights three critical trends: 🚨Rising attacks by state actors operating beyond their own territories 🚨The rapid expansion of drone warfare 🚨Humanitarian funding cuts driving system collapse The report also documents the impact on #maternalhealth, #mentalhealth services, disease outbreaks, emergency care, and frontline health worker wellbeing. From #Ethiopia to #Gaza, from #Syria to #Ukraine, PHR documents illegal attacks on health care workers and facilities and gathered evidence of these crimes to support justice. ⚖️ Our investigations help expose the reverberating, long-lasting health harms when critical health care systems are compromised. 📢 Health care must never be a target. Together with our SHCC partners, we call for: ✅ Respect for international humanitarian law ✅Accountability for attacks ✅Sustained humanitarian funding ✅Protection mechanisms for health workers ✅Stronger monitoring and documentation efforts