Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Syria, and based on its data, in the Syria, (in Arabic and English) chapter of the 2024 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Epidemic of Violence identified 62 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 2024. In these incidents, health facilities were damaged 25 times, and 17 health workers were killed.

-More than 14 years of conflict has devastated the country’s health care system and displaced millions of people.

– Russia’s and the Assad regime’s final attacks on Syria’s health care system before the regime’s fall damaged 14 facilities and killed six health workers over four days in Aleppo and Idlib.

– Attacks on health care were associated with increased displacement, with people often seeking shelter in overcrowded camps or informal settlements that lack adequate water supplies and sanitation facilities.

Download the report data.

Published every two weeks, Insecurity Insight’s Attacks on Health Care New Brief tracks global threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care. Explore our interactive map to see where incidents happened.