Insecurity Insight’s data concerning attacks on health workers and facilities collected for the SHCC is analysed in the Coalition’s annual report. The following paragraphs summarise the latest report issued in 2025 and covering attacks on health care in conflict in 2024. Insecurity Insight also issues regular news briefs providing information on reported attacks on health care in conflict from open source monitoring and partner contributions. Additionally, Insecurity Insight has produced a handbook on security risk management for health care services in conflict settings and reports on explosive weapons impacting health care. These can be found below on this page.

Epidemic of Violence: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict

In 2024, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documented 3,623 incidents of violence against or obstruction of violence against or obstruction of health care in conflicts across 36 countries or territories. The figure is the highest ever reported by the SHCC and marks a 15% increase from 2023 and a 62% rise from 2022. The increase was driven by intense and persistent violence against health care in Lebanon, Myanmar, the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Sudan, and Ukraine. On average, health care came under attack ten times a day in conflict-affected areas, where health systems are overwhelmed by rising needs, the growing suffering of patients, and increasing conflict-related deaths and intergenerational trauma. The report includes detailed profiles of 23 countries and territories where many acts of violence against health care took place across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe and the Americas.