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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kat Lay, Global health correspondent

Nursing unions call for UK to back prosecutions for war crimes against health workers

People stand around eight coffins wrapped in Palestinian Red Crescent flags
Funerals held for eight health workers killed in an Israeli attack at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, 31 March. Photograph: APAImages/REX/Shutterstock

War crimes targeting health workers, patients and facilities should be prioritised for international criminal prosecution, senior nursing and medical leaders have urged.

The number of health workers killed annually in conflicts has jumped five-fold in less than a decade, and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and British Medical Association (BMA) have called for action from the UK government to fully back international criminal court (ICC) prosecutions of perpetrators.

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