From mid-September until late November 2024, Lebanese health care facilities and personnel suffered from Israeli bombardment. The coalition’s report documents that at least 408 health workers were killed and health facilities were damaged at least 208 times. The kind of sickening regularity, it’s almost hard to fathom.”“We’re talking about the obliteration of an entire health care system,” Abi-Rached says. Abi-Rached is hopeful that the existence of the word healthocide will encourage the medical profession to stand up for health systems and health workers everywhere. And the health workers are still expected to perform and provide within these challenging situations.”In her view, this is why health workers in conflict zones can feel overlooked and neglected.