Protecting Hospitals in Iraq
Alive in Baghdad has a video report:
Field Report - Protecting Hospitals in Iraq
It genuinely bothers me that people would be sick-minded enough to attack hospitals, which has happened in the past in Kirkuk and Mosul. (That doesn’t let the US soldiers off the hook for deliberately attacking an Iraqi hospital in Fallujah either.)
As an EMT, pharmacy worker, and aspiring doctor, few things upset me more than those who deliberately target healthcare workers; doctors, nurses, ambulance personnel etc. Every so often, I’d look at the Palestinian Red Crescent website and see reports of attacks against PRCS members by Israeli soldiers; drivers and patients shot, delays at checkpoints killing patients, and mistreatment of workers (the website used to have photos). It’s just cruel. There have also been attacks on Israeli ambulances (which is just as reprehensible), but I can’t find nearly as many incidents.
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