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  1. “We appeal to the Council to immediately endorse and implement the Secretary-General's recommendations - in particular the call for independent and effective investigations. We also urgently request that the Secretary-General appoint a special representative mandated to document and report attacks on medical facilities, health personnel, and patients. Impunity must end. Only political pressure and accountability will bring that about. In short, the Council must make its resolution operational. Stop bombing hospitals. Stop bombing health workers. Stop bombing patients.”

    2016-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7779 (2016) · source

  2. “Military action and humanitarian needs must be balanced. Attacking hospitals and medical workers is a non-negotiable red line. As such, it must be set out - in clear and simple terms - in all military manuals, rules of engagement and standard operating procedures. Too often, unverified intelligence, or opaque claims that a hospital is a command-and-control centre is justification enough for an attack. To stop that, there must be accountability. There must be credible investigations - and not just by the perpetrators. I deliver this message almost one year to the day that United States forces destroyed the Medecins sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. We are still waiting for an independent investigation into how 42 patients, hospital staff and caregivers were killed while simply receiving and providing medical care.”

    2016-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7779 (2016) · source

  3. “Just this morning, two more hospitals in eastern Aleppo were struck, leading to their temporary shutdown. In one, the intensive care unit was severely damaged. Besieged, our Syrian colleagues are there for the duration. When it is their turn, they will die there, they tell us, with their patients. We deplore the lack of control over hostilities. This free-for-all is a choice. There is a method in the madness. In both Yemen and Syria, four of the five permanent members of the Council are implicated in these attacks. In an age when counter-terrorism shapes war, a license to kill has been issued. We call on Council members again to revoke that license, whether or not their enemies are receiving the medical care that is attacked, because throwing medical impartiality to the wind is also becoming a new norm of warfare.”

    2016-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7779 (2016) · source

  4. “It was the fourth such attack against MSF facilities in Yemen in less than one year - killing 32 people and injuring 51 in total. Our team had to withdraw from the north of Yemen, leaving scores behind with reduced medical care, which Saudi carpet-bombing then further reduced. The Saudi-led coalition and its opponents are so negligent, and their rules of engagement so loose, that this war truly stands apart. Many attacks are brushed off as mistakes committed in the fog of war. Let me be clear -we reject the word "mistake". In Syria, the attacks never stop. Doctors in Aleppo pull their weakest patients off ventilators so that someone else can get a chance. But ventilators are made for the weakest cases. This is desperate, desperate medicine.”

    2016-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7779 (2016) · source

  5. “It was just the latest in a staggering number of such attacks. Five months later, the resolution has plainly failed to change anything on the ground. This failure reflects a lack of political will among Member States fighting in coalitions and those who enable them. There can be no more waiting. Council member should make their pledges operational. Since the resolution was adopted, Me'decins Sans Frontieres (MSF) alone has experienced more horrific attacks. In early August, our hospital in Abs, Yemen, was destroyed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike. Nineteen people,including patients and health workers, were killed. The GPS coordinates of that fully functioning hospital had been shared with belligerents, including the Saudi military. It did not matter.”

    2016-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7779 (2016) · source

  6. “Ms. Liu: Last week, the world witnessed a savage attack on a United Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent humanitarian convoy and on a hospital near Aleppo. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said: "Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the bar of depravity sinks lower". Indeed, it does. The conduct of war today knows no limits. It is a race to the bottom. The unrelenting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days - with no evacuations possible and bodies lying unburied - testifies to that. On 3 May, the Council unanimously adopted resolution 2286 (2016). Council members pledged to protect civilians and the medical services they need to survive. The adopted the resolution in the wake of the obliteration of Al-Quds Hospital in Aleppo by the Syrian Government and its allies.”

    2016-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7779 (2016) · source