{"id":56856,"date":"2024-08-19T18:56:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56856"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:24:40","slug":"1940-russian-attacks-on-medical-facilities-in-ukraine-how-many-have-protested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/19\/1940-russian-attacks-on-medical-facilities-in-ukraine-how-many-have-protested\/","title":{"rendered":"1,940 Russian attacks on medical facilities in Ukraine: how many have protested?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For months I have been denouncing the double standards of certain Western politicians, media and activists, most of them on the left.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/08\/russia-attacks-a-childrens-hospital-in-ukraine-how-many-protests-will-there-be-against-this\/\">Russia attacks a children's hospital in Ukraine: how many protests will there be against this?<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/08\/the-powerful-cruise-missile-used-by-russia-to-attack-a-childrens-hospital-in-ukraine\/\">The powerful cruise missile used by Russia to attack a children's hospital in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This double standard is evident in <strong>the very different treatment of two wars currently underway:<\/strong> the one provoked by Russia with its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the one provoked by Hamas with its terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><big>Hamas blames Israel for rocket launched by Palestinian terrorists against hospital<\/big><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after this latest attack, it emerged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-770620\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas uses Gaza hospitals as hideouts for its terrorists<\/a>, <strong>treating its patients as human shields, which is a war crime<\/strong>, and turning these hospitals into legitimate military targets. <strong>Israel uses precision strikes to try to avoid damage to civilian infrastructure<\/strong>, but despite this, any damage to a Gaza medical facility is quickly amplified by all the politicians, media outlets and activists who are hostile to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>What's more, in mid-October 2023, <strong>a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad terrorists hit a hospital in Gaza:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/17\/an-islamic-jihad-rocket-hits-a-hospital-in-gaza-and-hamas-blames-israel\/\">Hamas blamed Israel, and many media outlets believed Hamas's lie<\/a>, just as they have been publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/13\/seven-months-later-the-united-nations-admits-that-hamas-publishes-false-death-tolls\/\">the false death figures provided by Hamas<\/a> without any verification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lies like these have served to mobilize far-left activists in many countries,<\/strong> organizing protests against Israel that in many cases have degenerated into acts of harassment, hostility and violence against Jewish communities, in a wave of anti-Semitism in the West unprecedented since the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p><big>1,940 Russian attacks on medical facilities in Ukraine since February 2022<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Things change dramatically when it comes to Ukraine. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/ukraine\/news\/item\/19-08-2024-grim-milestone-on-world-humanitarian-day--who-records-1940-attacks-on-health-care-in-ukraine-since-start-of-full-scale-war\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine has suffered 1,940 attacks on medical facilities since the start of the Russian invasion<\/a>. These are attacks verified by the WHO, which has documented <strong>24 deaths among health personnel and patients in 2023 and 34 in 2024<\/strong>, in addition to an average of 200 ambulances damaged or destroyed annually in Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding attacks on medical facilities, the WHO notes that <em>\"<strong>a significant proportion of such attacks involving heavy weapons.<\/strong>\"<\/em> The Ukrainian Ministry of Health, in turn, has noted that since the beginning of the invasion, <a href=\"https:\/\/euromaidanpress.com\/2024\/08\/19\/highest-rate-in-world-russia-carries-out-1940-attacks-on-ukrainian-medical-system\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian attacks have destroyed 99 Ukrainian medical facilities<\/a>, <strong>affecting more than 200 facilities<\/strong>. An example of this lack of scruples on the part of the Russians when attacking health facilities was seen on July 8, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/08\/russia-attacks-a-childrens-hospital-in-ukraine-how-many-protests-will-there-be-against-this\/\">the attack on the Okhmatdyt Hospital in kyiv, the largest children's medical center in Ukraine<\/a>, which left dozens dead and caused serious material damage.<\/p>\n<p><big>The silence of much of the left and of the entire extreme left<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the lies about Gaza, <strong>much of the Western left and the far-left were silent in the face of this attack<\/strong>. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/09\/sanchez-remains-silent-and-vox-reiterates-its-support-for-ukraine-after-russian-attack-on-childrens-hospital\/\">the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez said nothing about what happened<\/a>, after constantly criticizing Israel based on the lies spread by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that <strong>unlike Hamas, which uses Gaza hospitals as hiding places and its patients as human shields<\/strong> (in what, I repeat, is a war crime according to the 1949 Geneva Conventions), <strong>Ukraine has no military positions or installations in its hospitals<\/strong>. Ukrainian hospitals are used to treat the wounded and sick, not to hide soldiers. Therefore, <strong>the silence of much of the left and the entire far left in the face of these 1940 is even more infamous<\/strong> and shows how much they have become <strong>mere puppets of Putin and Hamas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/ho-records-1940-attacks-on-health-care-in-ukraine-since-start-of-full-scale-war\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Health Organization<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months I have been denouncing the double standards of certain Western politicians, media and activists, most of them on the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[10497,829,828,20307,95,22258,2721,10731,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-56856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-far-left","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hamas-terrorist-attack-on-israel-on-october-7-2023","tag-israel","tag-okhmatdyt-hospital","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 08:16:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}