NATO bombs hit hospital in Libya's Sirte

Professor Peabody · Oct 7, 2011

NATO bombs hit hospital in Libya's Sirte

Thu Oct 6, 2011 3:51PM GMT

NATO has carried out a new round of airstrikes against Libya, targeting a hospital in the northern town of Sirte, Press TV reports.

NATO warplanes bombed the medical center in Sirte, located 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, on Thursday. The number of possible casualties remains unknown.

The strike comes as the houses of tribesmen loyal to the fugitive Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi have been looted in the south of the city.

Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday set out conditions for the termination of the NATO campaign in Libya.

Speaking at a meeting of NATO defense chiefs in Brussels, Belgium, Panetta said that a decision to cease the bombing of Libya will depend on whether forces loyal to Gaddafi are still able to attack civilians, and whether the Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) forces are able to provide security for the North African country.

NATO has carried out more than 9,300 airstrikes on Libya since its campaign started in March, according to the Associated Press.

Hundreds of Libyan civilians have lost their lives since NATO took command of the airstrikes on March 31.

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More blood for Oil strikes in Libya. Too bad they nailed a Hospital this time. I thought they weren't going after civilians? I guess that's one way to make sure Gadaffi's fighters don't make their way back to the battle field, blast 'em right outta their hospital beds. But hey, at $2 billion a day it's a bargain.

waltky · May 26, 2016

A hospital is a dangerous place to be during a war...

WHO: Nearly 960 killed in attacks on hospitals in 2 years
May 26,`16 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 960 people have been killed worldwide in attacks on medical facilities in conflicts over the past two years, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday that highlighted an alarming disrespect for the protection of health care in war by both governments and armed groups.

The study by the U.N. heath agency detailed 594 attacks on hospitals and clinics in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere in 2014 and 2015 that killed 959 medics, support staff, patients and visitors and left over 1,500 injured. Most disturbingly, the report says over 60 percent of the attacks deliberately targeted the medical facilities, while 20 percent were accidental and the rest were undetermined. Over 50 percent of the attacks were perpetrated by governments, one-third by armed groups and the rest were unknown.

War-wracked Syria tallied the largest number of attacks on health care - 228 in the two-year span - accounting for nearly 40 percent of the agency's global tally. "This is a huge problem. Attacks on health workers are not isolated, they are not accidental and they are not stopping," said Dr. Bruce Aylward, the head of emergency response at WHO. He told reporters in Geneva that often governments or combatants pay lip service to trying to end attacks on health facilities, with no follow-through. "We hear everywhere, 'this is unacceptable, attacks on health workers.' When things are unacceptable, you see a movement on the part of states, on the part of governments, on the part of parties involved to stop these, to hold people accountable. We have not seen that the way we need it if this is to be addressed," he said.

People stand amid wreckage of a vehicle at the site of a car bomb attack near a military hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The World Health Organization says nearly 1,000 people have been killed worldwide in attacks on medical facilities in conflicts over the past two years in violation of humanitarian norms.

Dr. Rick Brennan, director of WHO's emergency risk management, agreed that those attacking medical facilities must be named and held accountable. "We want to hold all parties to conflict - whether they be governments or non-state armed groups - to account ... Why do they continue? It's a lack of respect, or ignorance, or dismissal of international humanitarian law," he said. Brennan says WHO is also trying to better document the after-effects from attacks on access to health care. Following attacks on vaccinators in Pakistan, he said "kids' can't get vaccinated, pregnant women can't deliver at health care facilities, (mothers) can't take their kids to a health facility for basic antibiotics or rehydration when the kids get sick."

Targeting hospitals, doctors and patients constitutes a war crime, according to the Geneva Conventions. The U.N. Security Council has denounced the attacks and demanded that all parties in conflicts protect medical facilities, but some of the Council's most powerful members have been associated with these crimes. U.S. forces struck a clinic in Afghanistan last year, killing 42 people, in what the Pentagon said was a mistake caused by human error. Medical facilities have also been hit by the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Russian forces that back him have been accused of deliberately striking hospitals to make life in opposition-held areas unlivable. "It's an absolutely devastating breakdown of this long-held norm - protection and respect of health care," said Susannah Sirkin, a director at the New York-based Physicians for Human Rights.

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Dispondent · May 26, 2016

What's truly insane about this is that liberals forgot to mention how many terrorists Obama just created, and they've had five years! Or did that only apply to Bush? I can never remember which set of double standards they are working with...

Draco · May 26, 2016

Dispondent said: ↑

What's truly insane about this is that liberals forgot to mention how many terrorists Obama just created, and they've had five years! Or did that only apply to Bush? I can never remember which set of double standards they are working with...
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Only applies to Bush, didnt you know this?

Dispondent · May 26, 2016

Draco said: ↑

Only applies to Bush, didnt you know this?
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I did, but I thought with the passage of years and Obama being a lame duck perhaps some liberal somewhere might have found an ounce of integrity and commented on it by now...

waltky · Aug 8, 2016

Hospitals bombed in Pakistan, Syria...

Suicide attack targets lawyers at Pakistan hospital, 70 dead
Aug 8,`16 -- Pakistani militants struck at the heart of the country's legal profession on Monday, killing a prominent attorney and then bombing the hospital where dozens of other lawyers had gathered to mourn. The twin attacks killed at least 70 people, most of them lawyers, authorities said.

A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks in Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province, which also wounded dozens of others. In a statement, Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militant group, said its fighters killed Bilal Kasi, the president of the Baluchistan Bar Association, then as dozens of lawyers gathered at the government-run Civil Hospital, a suicide bomber targeted the mourners. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has been behind several attacks in Pakistan in recent years, including a deadly March bombing on Easter Sunday in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed at least 70 people. Witnesses described horrifying scenes of bodies scattered on the ground and the wounded screaming out for help.

Pakistani volunteers rush an injured person for medical help following a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. A powerful bomb went off inside a government-run hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens of others, police said.

A senior police official said Kasi was shot and killed by gunmen as he was on his way to his office. Kasi was among the most outspoken lawyers in Baluchistan province and was popular for campaigning for improvements in the legal community. "It was a suicide attack," said the police official, Zahoor Ahmed Afridi. He said remains of the attacker had been found and authorities were trying to identify them. Ninety-two people were wounded in the explosion, according to Civil Hospital director Abdul Rehman. Two journalists working for Pakistani news channels were among those killed in the attack, according to Shahzada Zulfiqar, the president of the Quetta Press Club. Ali Zafar, the head of the country's main lawyers' association, condemned the blast as "an attack on justice." He said lawyers would observe three days of mourning and would not appear in court in solidarity with their colleagues and others killed in the attack.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau condemned the targeting of "a hospital, as well as the judiciary and the media, two of the most important pillars of every democracy," and vowed to work with Pakistan to combat the threat of terrorism. Survivors described scenes of panic as the blast ripped through the emergency room. Waliur Rehman said he was taking his ailing father to the emergency ward when the explosion shook the building, knocking them both to the ground. "There were bodies everywhere," he said. Another witness, lawyer Abdul Latif, said he had just arrived at the hospital to express his grief over Kasi's killing, and was horrified to "see the bodies of dozens of other lawyers" lying in pools of blood on the floor.

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MSF says a hospital it supports in Syria bombed, 13 killed
Aug 8,`16 -- A hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and specializing in pediatrics in a rebel-held northern Syria province has been destroyed in a series of airstrikes over the weekend that killed 13 people, including four staff and five children, the international medical charity said Monday.

The group, known by its French acronym MSF, said that two of four airstrikes directly hit the hospital in Millis, in the northern province of Idlib and put it out of service. Six other hospital staff members were wounded in the broad daylight airstrikes Saturday. The bombing of the hospital that serves as a reference center specializing in pediatrics also destroyed the operating theatre, intensive care unit, pediatric department, ambulances and a generator, the charity said.

MSF said the hospital attack deprives 70,000 people in Millis and surrounding areas of essential medical care. The hospital, supported by MSF since 2014, used to receive 250 patients per day, many of them women and children "The direct bombing of another hospital in Syria is an outrage," says Silvia Dallatomasina, medical manager of MSF operations in northwestern Syria. She called for an immediate end to attacks on hospitals, pointing that four out of five UN Security Council members are participants in the war in Syria.

Hospitals, mostly in rebel-held areas, are regularly attacked. In July alone, the U.N. said it has recorded 44 attacks on health facilities in Syria. Syria's government and Russia, a major ally that has been carrying out airstrikes in Syria since September, deny targeting health facilities. In recent days, a number of attacks were reported on medical facilities amid increased violence, and ultimately increased pressure on the health facilities, in northern Syria.

MSF said two facilities it supports in Idlib, controlled by insurgents, have reported nine mass-influxes of wounded in July, that left 466 wounded and 37 dead. In the first six-months of 2016, the same facilities reported only seven mass-influxes of wounded, with a total 294 wounded and 33 dead.

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Quetta hospital bombing: Pakistan Taliban claim attack
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 - A faction of the Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a suicide attack at a hospital in Quetta which killed at least 70 people.

The attacker targeted a crowd that had gathered as the body of a prominent lawyer murdered earlier on Monday, Bilal Kasi, was being brought in. Lawyers and journalists were among the dead. About 120 people were injured. The Taliban faction, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, said it was behind both the hospital attack and the killing of Mr Kasi. He was head of the Balochistan province bar association. He was shot while on his way to the court complex in Quetta. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar [The Party of Freedom Fighters] split from the Pakistani Taliban two years ago. It has claimed a number of major attacks, including a suicide bombing that killed more than 70 people - including many children - at a park during Easter celebrations this year.

Attack on justice

Balochistan, Palistan's poorest province, has long been plagued by insurgency. A number of people, including lawyers, have been murdered in Quetta in recent weeks. Mr Kasi had strongly condemned those attacks. He had announced a two-day boycott of court sessions in protest at the killing of a colleague last week. After the hospital blast, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and chief of army staff Gen Raheel Sharif both went to Quetta for talks with security officials. Mr Sharif expressed his "deep grief and anguish", adding: "No-one will be allowed to disturb the peace of the province. The people, policy and security forces in Balochistan have given sacrifices for the country."

Peshawar mourners hold a candle-lit vigil after the Quetta attack

The president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association, Syed Ali Zafa, called the assault "an attack on justice". The Pakistan Bar Council has announced a nationwide strike by lawyers on Tuesday. Those killed in the hospital attack were said to include Baz Muhammad Kakar, a predecessor of Mr Kasi as provincial bar president, and more than 30 other lawyers. Two journalists have also been identified among the dead - Shahzad Khan, a cameraman for Aaj TV, and Mehmood Khan, a cameraman for DawnNews. Lawyers in Lahore staged a demonstration to condemn the attack. Some journalists also protested, demanding protection for freedom of expression.

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