Médecins Sans Frontières: Hospitals Are Now Normal Targets Of War``

An MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, hit by an airstrike. Photograph: Dan Sermand/MSF

The Guardian: Hospitals are now normal targets of war, says Médecins Sans Frontières

Humanitarian specialist Michiel Hofman says permanent members of UN security council are complicit in killings by supporting countries in conflict.

The targeting of hospitals and humanitarian workers in war is quickly becoming a “new normal”, a top official at Médecins Sans Frontières has said, describing permanent members of the UN security council as complicit in the killing of medics.

Michiel Hofman, a senior humanitarian specialist at the charity, offered a grim analysis, saying instead of rebel groups it was conventional armies that were repeatedly violating the laws of war. He chided the permanent members of the security council, four of whom are engaged in conflicts where medics are targeted, saying such a situation had not occurred since the Korean war in the 1950s.

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WNU Editor: Hospitals have always been targeted during war. I have been covering wars and conflicts for years .... I do not even know where to begin on listing on the "when and where" hospitals and doctors were targeted.