Overview
- Designated UN experts renewed a call for concrete Security Council measures to stop attacks on medical care and to hold offenders to account, ten years after Resolution 2286.
- They cited World Health Organization data of at least 217 attacks on health facilities since April 15, 2023, with more than 2,000 civilian deaths linked to strikes on medical targets.
- Recent strikes included the March 20 air attack on Ed Daein Teaching Hospital that killed at least 64 and forced the only working hospital in the area to close.
- The UN Human Rights Office recorded 12 aerial assaults on health sites in the first three months of 2026, many carried out by drones.
- UN officials warned that roughly 37% of health facilities are now non-functional, while the UK urged transparent investigations and flagged uncrewed aerial systems as a growing threat to patients and staff.