A man carries his grandson, wounded in an Israeli strike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Sunday, July 6, 2025.

Medical experts have come up with a new term to describe deliberate, systematic attacks on health services as acts of war: healthocide.

Medical practitioners have called for their fellow medics within the international community to call out this weaponisation of health and healthcare, which they believe undermines international humanitarian law.

And silence could suggest complicity, Dr Joelle Abi-Rached and colleagues of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon warned in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.

The authors pointed to the suffering seen in Gaza and Lebanon right now as examples of healthocide.

They pointed out that since Israel began its military offensive in Gaza on October 8, 2023 – following the Hamas attack the day before – an estimated 217 health........

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