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The bombing of Baghdad during the initial stages of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US forces, known as "shock and awe" is an example of a coordinated surgical strike, where government buildings and military targets were systematically attacked by US aircraft in an attempt to cripple the Ba'athist controlled Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein.
Medical personnel have taken a heavy toll in the conflict, as many doctors have been killed by Israeli airstrikes, [219] and attacks by the Israeli army. [220] According to an update from the UN World Health Organization (WHO), doctors in Gaza have been conducting surgeries without the use of anesthesia or other essential surgical resources.
Médecins Sans Frontières reported that between 02:08 and 03:15 local time (UTC+04:30) on the night of 3 October, the organization's Kunduz hospital was struck by "a series of aerial bombing raids". [ 11 ] [ 21 ] The humanitarian organization said the hospital was "hit several times" in the course of the attack, and that the building was ...
The medical campus of the historically Black college and university in Willowbrook was closed Tuesday. Bomb threat shuts down Charles R. Drew medical school in Willowbrook Skip to main content
The most widely covered attack was the bombing of the Mariupol maternity hospital. [33] On 23 November 2022, Russian missile strikes destroyed a maternity ward in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, in the town of Vilnyansk, killing a newborn baby. [2] On July 8, 2024, Russian cruise missiles attacked children's hospitals in Kyiv and Dnipro. [35]
Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip. [8] In the week before the attack, the IDF said that al-Shifa was "the site of a significant Hamas command and control center". [8] On 16 October 2023, Israel ordered Al Shifa Hospital, and the rest of northern Gaza, to evacuate. Because of insufficient beds in the southern ...
Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, was placed under siege by Israel in mid-November 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war, after saying it had contained a Hamas command and control center beneath it. The incident was followed by a second major raid by Israeli forces in March 2024.
On 20 February, Doctors Without Borders reported they had lost contact with their medical team at Nasser and called for the hospital's remaining 130 patients to be evacuated. [94] WHO evacuated an additional 32 patients in critical condition. [95] Citing the Gaza Health Ministry, UNOCHA reported that 70 medical personnel had been arrested. [96]