Bombing hospitals: an increasing violation of IHL

Bombing hospitals and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) - Photo : Hospital staff walk in the corridor of a hospital destroyed by an Israeli missile shell, in the Gaza Strip (Palestine).
Hospital staff inspect the destruction inside Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, following an Israeli strike early on May 13, 2025. The Israeli military said it struck an hospital "housing Hamas militants". Photo: © Eyad Baba / AFP

Never before have hospitals and healthcare workers been so targeted in conflicts –whether in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar, and more recently in Iran and Israel. In this new podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts asked Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross, to explain why and how international humanitarian law (IHL) provides hospitals with the highest level of protection – in situations where, increasingly, "the very basic (of IHL) is completely lost", she emphasized.

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This podcast has been published as part of a partnership between Justice Info and Asymmetrical Haircuts, a podcast on international justice produced from The Hague by journalists Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, who retain full control and independence over the contents of the podcast.

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