A United Nations report raises concerns over what it says are recent 'deliberate attacks' against healthcare workers and facilities in Afghanistan.
The United Nations on Sunday released a report expressing concerns over what it called recent “deliberate attacks” against healthcare workers and facilities in Afghanistan during the coronavirus pandemic.
The report said eight of the attacks were carried out by Taliban insurgents, while three were attributed to Afghan security forces. The most horrific attack, on a maternity ward at a Kabul hospital that killed 24 people last month, remains unsolved. The United States has said the attack bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan, which is fighting both the Taliban and the Kabul government.
Afghan government officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Associated Press. Following the May 12 attack on the Kabul maternity hospital, Doctors Without Borders decided last week to end its operations in Kabul. The international charity, also known by its French acronym MSF, said it would keep its other programs in Afghanistan running but did not go into details.The attack at the maternity hospital killed two infants as well as several young mothers as well as nurses, and set off an hours-long shootout with Afghan police.
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