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Safeguarding Healthcare Monthly News Brief - September 2018

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Threats and violence affecting emergency care

Asia

Nepal

22 September 2018: In Rajbiraj city, Saptari region, Sagarmatha zone, the emergency ward of the Gajendranarayan Singh Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital was vandalized by locals who claimed that doctors had pronounced dead a child who was still living. Source: ACLED

Middle-East and North Africa

Libya

01 September 2018: In Tripoli, gunfire from an unidentified source directly hit two ambulances whilst transporting the wounded from conflict areas south of the capital. Source: Alwasat 20 September 2018: In Tripoli, unidentified armed perpetrators hijacked an ambulance of the Tripoli Field Hospital whilst it was on a humanitarian mission to evacuate a stranded family in a conflict zone. Source: Libya Herald

Occupied Palestinian Territories

28 September 2018: In Gaza, along the border of Israel, four paramedics were attacked and hospitalized by Israeli forces during the 27th Friday of the Great Return March, along with over 200 other Palestinians. Israeli forces claim their attacks on demonstrators were in response to grenades and Molotov cocktails being thrown. Source: ACLED

Yemen

08 September 2018: In Habab area, Sirwah district, Saud-led coalition forces launched a missile strike on a road, killing two civilians on a motorcycle before shortly firing a second set of missiles at the same location, killing the three attending paramedics in what is known as a double-tap strike. Source: ACLED