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Report: Health Workers Attacked In 23 Countries Last Year

Syria has seen the most attacks but it is far from the only country where assaults take place.
Heath care facilities and workers were attacked in 23 countries in 2016. Note: CAR is the Central African Republic; DRC is the Democratic Republic of Congo; OPT is the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

On November 18 last year, as fighter jets roared overhead, explosions ripped through the Omar bin Abdul Aziz Hospital in Aleppo Syria.

The airstrikes destroyed the last operating hospital in the eastern part of the city. This wasn't a rare event. Three other hospitals in Aleppo were bombed on that day, too.

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