Professor Neve Gordon co-authors an article on the history of hospital bombing

18 March 2022

The article, co-authored with Nicola Perugini, states: “The attack on the Mariupol hospital was only one of 43 Russian attacks against Ukrainian medical units during the first three weeks of the fighting... Bombing hospitals is not something new in the Russian playbook. Physicians for Human Rights has claimed that Russian forces were implicated in 244 attacks on medical facilities in Syria.”

Read the full article in The Markaz Review.

More information:

• Neve Gordon is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Queen Mary University of London.
• Professor Gordon and Nicola Perugini have co-authored a book, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, published by the University of California Press.