[9] On 30 January 2024, Israeli special forces performed a raid on Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin dressed as civilians and medical personnel, killing three alleged Palestinian militants.
Footage from the scene shows at least ten armed members carrying assault rifles, assumed to be Israeli forces, dressed in civilian attire including as nurses wearing blue scrubs, a doctor in a white overcoat, and women in hijabs.
Legal experts have suggested that Israeli actions could have violated international law by disguising themselves as civilians and medical staff, and by killing sick and wounded personnel.
[10][11] As of 12 March 2022 at least nine medical facilities, including Mariupol maternity hospital, most being located to the north and the south-east of Ukraine, were attacked by Russian military forces.
[14][12] Between 24 February and 21 March 2022, sixty-four medical facilities and their personnel were targeted by Russian forces in Ukraine, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported.
[19] During the Israeli bombing of Gaza in May 2021, parts of a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) trauma and burns care clinic were destroyed in a series of airstrikes.
Dr. Ayman Abu al-Ouf, the head of internal medicine at Al-Shifa hospital, was killed along with 12 members of his extended family after an airstrike on his home on 16 May 2021.
[27] Violence against healthcare workers and the destruction of health facilities is a violation of international laws regarding medical neutrality, and has been described as such in regards to the Tigray war.
Ethnic and civil conflict has been a persistent part of modern Burmese/Myanmar society, and the Tatmadaw (Burmese Army) has used the pretext of a COVID-19 lockdown to secretly force local indigenous groups to work for them, continuing attacks on health care centres located in the conflict regions but serving the general community, and recently shelled a Red Cross boat carrying medical supplies causing International condemnation.
[36] Since civil unrest broke out in October 2019, there has been backlash toward police and military forces for their disregard for medical volunteers who aid injured protestors.
[37] During the anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement of 2019 which evolved into a large-scale pro-democracy protest over the course of several months, medics were increasingly frequently denied access to patients.
According to Amnesty international's interviews "it was common for police to delay calling or securing an ambulance until five to 10 hours after the injury and after the person first requested to go to a hospital".
[43] First aiders have also reported being held at the gunpoint of a rubber-bullet gun and being pinned down to the ground in an arm lock with clear disregard of their medic identity.
[44] On 3 October 2015, U.S. airstrikes killed 42 people and destroyed the MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan (See main article).
[50] In 2011, during political unrest, state security forces directly attacked protestors and field clinics, injuring and killing numerous people.
[52][53] The Syrian civil war has been marked by widespread human rights abuses, including numerous violations of medical neutrality.
In 2009, the Sri Lankan air force violated the principle of medical neutrality when it destroyed the Ponnampalam Memorial Hospital in Puthukkudiyiruppu.
[62] During the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, on 13 August 2008, a rocket fired from a Russian military helicopter hit a group of Georgian medical staff members in a hospital yard in Gori, killing an emergency room surgeon.
The Human Rights Watch concluded that the attack on the hospital, which was "clearly marked with a red cross", was a "serious violation of international humanitarian law".
[65] A year after a bloodless military coup in Bangkok in February 1991, the new government responded to the pro-democracy movement opening fire on a May opposition rally, resulting in 52 deaths, hundreds of injured, and many disappearances.
In addition, Panamanian physicians were kidnapped, beaten, and tortured for speaking out against government policies which prevented them from providing their patients with adequate care.
Approximately thirty-seven Bengali civilians or non-combatants, including patients, doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals or medical personnel were summarily executed by the Pakistani military.