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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Protecting Health Care in Conflict: 10 Years After UN Resolution 2286. Robert S. Lawrence and health and human rights scholar @lenrubenstein.bsky.social reflect on the promise of an international effort to protect health workers and facilities in armed conflict nam.edu/news-and-ins...
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Protecting Health Care in Conflict: 10 Years After UN Resolution 2286
Protecting health care in conflict remains urgent 10 years after UN Resolution 2286, as attacks persist and accountability gaps continue worldwide.
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The attack on the highly respected Pasteur Institute in Iran, a building dedicated to science, may well be a war crime. But the ICC lacks jurisdiction unless Iran asks it, based on acts committed in its territory, and that too seems unlikely given Iran's own conduct.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Thursday
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The number of attacks on health care in armed conflict has dramatically increased over the past five years. I discuss what is driving the attacks and what needs to be done with @drjoshs.bsky.social publichealth.jhu.edu/headlines/pu...
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Public Health On Call Podcast | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Evidence and experts to help you understand today’s public health news—and what it means for tomorrow.
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I write about the need for a reckoning for attacks on health care in Gaza and an end to the erosion of the critical norms for protection of hospitals, the wounded and sick and their caregivers -- and how to achieve it. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/a-re...
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A Reckoning for Attacks on Health in Gaza  | Think Global Health
Governments and international agencies should condemn both violations of humanitarian law and attempts to weaken its protections
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Colleagues Joe Amon and Rohini Haar and I discuss the normalization of attacks on health care in conflict in Gaza and beyond and what can be done to end impunity for them. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Attacks on healthcare in war are being steadily normalized—we need to end impunity
International humanitarian law is being steadily undermined, warn Leonard Rubenstein and colleagues On 25 August 2025, Israeli tanks shelled Nasser Hospital, one of the largest in Gaza, and which ha...
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Colleagues Joe Amon and Rohini Haar and I discuss how attacks on health care are being normalized and what can be done to end impunity for them www.bmj.com/content/390/...
bmj.com
Attacks on healthcare in war are being steadily normalized—we need to end impunity
International humanitarian law is being steadily undermined, warn Leonard Rubenstein and colleagues On 25 August 2025, Israeli tanks shelled Nasser Hospital, one of the largest in Gaza, and which ha...
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
.‪@ferozesidhwa.org‬ and I show that Israel’s wholesale destruction of the entire health sytem in Gaza, and the death and suffering it has brought, cannot be remotely justified by its claims of Hamas misuse of hospitals for military purposes
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Stunning @nytimes video investigation of Israeli Defense Forces killing of 14 Palestinian emergency responders, lying about it, followed by an IDF investigation that was a whitewash - and that it was part of a pattern of attacking ambulances and medical convoys www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Yet another attack in Nasser Hospital in Gaza targeted at a wounded Hamas fighter receiving treatment for wounds. One of the most fundamental rules of the Geneva Conventions from their inception is not to attack or kill wounded soldiers. Israel crossed yet another line bbc.com/news/article...
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Israeli strike at Gaza's Nasser Hospital kills Hamas official and aide
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said medical staff had been injured and some of the hospital destroyed.
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Yet another new element in Trump Administration campaign to undermine international humanitarian law www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war
The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Re medical abuse at Sde Teimen see Physicians and the Push for Accountability for Alleged Abuse of Gazan Prisoners Detained by Israel www.justsecurity.org/104150/physi...
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Physicians and the Push for Accountability for Alleged Abuse of Gazan Prisoners Detained by Israel
Torture and inhuman treatment of Gazan detainees, which amount to war crimes, are putting Israeli medical stuff in a compromised position.
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Five iDF soldiers charged for assault abd sexuel abuse at notorious Sde Teimen detention csmp but no indication of investigations of commanders or ministers whose detention policies were designed to ge abusive and were. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
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Israeli Military Prosecutor Charges Five Soldiers in Abuse of Palestinian Detainee
Lawyers representing one of the soldiers said they have presented arguments that deny the charges against the reservists.
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A great vindication for a courageous human rights leader
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Must read report by Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on attacks on hospitals in Gaza and Israel's breaches of the law. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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lenrubenstein.bsky.social @lenrubenstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Assad must be brought to justice for his brutality against his own people, including for his attacks on hospitals, which along with those of Putin, number more than 650.
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