AGAIN AND AGAIN – #OurRedLine documentary series

Episode 3_The impunity
Script: subtitles and graphics

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We see the attacks continuing.

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Attacking a healthcare facility

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is not so costly anymore.

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There is absolutely no respect

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for international humanitarian law.

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And now we are more than 600 days

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after I left my house.

Chyron
Gaza Strip
June 2025

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During this war,
all the hospitals

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have been targeted
directly or indirectly.

Chyron
Mohammed Abu Mughaisib
MSF medical coordinator in Gaza

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And for me, every hospital,

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when I enter the hospital in Gaza,

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I really feel

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worried, scared

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that at one point

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that at one point there will be
a ground operation by the Israeli army

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and we’ll be surrounded

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and all will be targeted.

Chyron
Al Awda Hospital
Gaza

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It’s been 10 years
since the Kunduz attack

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and the truth is that everything
remains the same.

Chyron
Paula Gil
President of MSF Spain

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We are facing a constant collapse

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of security in contexts of war
and of conflict,

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where there is absolutely no respect

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for international humanitarian law.

Animation
JANUARY 2018 – JULY 2024
Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
7,000 incidents
4,600 people injured
2,200 patients and healthcare workers killed

Direct impacts on different healthcare resources
Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
Number of attacks
Facilities
Transport
Personnel
Supplies assets
Warehouses
Patients
Jan / May / Sep

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Where medical facilities,

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warehouses, ambulances,

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health centres

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are being continually attacked,

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making resolution [2286]
a worthless piece paper.

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To this must be added a constant
characteristic of the attacks,

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which is the continued impunity
for these crimes.

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The states that have ratified it

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must not only comply
with international humanitarian law,

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but also enforce it.

Chyron
Kate Burton
MSF critical incident advisor

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The patterns continue

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and the attacks on healthcare
in areas of armed conflict

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really seem to be increasing, at least
according to the reported numbers.

Animation
JANUARY 2018 – JULY 2024
Source: Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition
Conflict-related incidents

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The only thing that really changes
is the focus

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and the concentration to new contexts
where there's an armed conflict.

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So Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar…

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If you look at the numbers,
for example, in 2023,

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those four contexts

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represented 85% of the attacks
on healthcare.

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And they also represented 72%
of the killings of healthcare workers,

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which were over 400 people
in just one year.
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Every health structure in Gaza,

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from north to south,
was attacked.

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The health structure actually collapsed.

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Now, I'm not saying
it's anymore collapsing

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because there is no more
health structure anymore.

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The life is completely destroyed.

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There is no schools,
there's no universities,

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no streets,

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no shops,

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no houses.

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I mean, the soul of the people
has been destroyed.

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So it would need decades,
really, years,

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to heal what has been destroyed
in Gaza.

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When you're politicising healthcare
and you're accusing

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entire health structures
or organisations of being non-neutral,

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you are basically placing it
into the realm of the armed conflict

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and also you're implying it
to be a legitimate target,

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which is not the case.

Chyron
Abubakr Bakri
MSF doctor and operations manager

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Healthcare is the symbol of authority.

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And attacking healthcare is attack

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an attack on this authority

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in a way, as well.

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So that's very important

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in modern day warfare.

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And that's why I think it happens

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in a systematic way.


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Another reason is definitely
the impunity,

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and the lack of consequences.

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I've rarely seen any party

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that has been held accountable


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because of an attack

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on a healthcare facility.

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I think that we are at a new normal
that is also an old normal.

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So, you know, having a legal framework

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So, you know, having a legal framework

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in place which is not being
respected is like going back to

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the early 1800s where
there was no legal framework.

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And these attacks are not only
being carried out by state actors,

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but a lot of them are
really world superpowers.

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I’ve been in Gaza now for 25 years.

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I never imagined that
I would live these 600 days.

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I never imagined that this kind
of war would happen.

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I have been…

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in Kuwait during the Gulf War.

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I saw the Iranian-Iraqi war in the past.

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I mean, I was here at the beginning
of the Second Intifada,

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the several military waves…

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But this one…

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the war of Gaza of 2023,
after 7th October,

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I never imagined that I would live it.

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It's like living a movie,
you know, a horror movie,

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a science fiction movie.

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I mean, we lost everything.

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So, I mean…

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Our moods are really…

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I don't want to speak about it anymore.

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When these kinds of attacks
are intentional,

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you get a terrible feeling
of powerlessness

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of indignation,

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of sadness,

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of rage.

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And I would say that this feeling
of indignation

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is what drives you to persevere,

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to want to keep working

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and to want to keep being where
you're needed despite the circumstances.

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But above all, it's a very strong
feeling of helplessness.

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I think we have not changed
as humans

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and the rules of the game
have not changed.

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What has changed is the commitment
to playing by those rules.

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So we used to kind of want to play
by the rules

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or at least we wanted to be seen
as playing by the rules

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and now there is not even the latter
in many cases.

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In some cases, it's actually

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more dangerous to show
that you are a humanitarian than not.

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And that is really concerning
as it puts us much more at risk.

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The attacks can only be stopped
when the war is stopped

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and that's unfortunately
out of our hands.

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Meanwhile, we try as much as
possible to talk to all parties

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about the importance of healthcare
facilities to the populations.

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We try to explain as much as we can

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that civilians need to be protected,

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patients need to be protected,

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and hospitals should not be
a battleground for this war.
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And that's all that we can do

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as an organisation.

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“I carry a scar so large I doubt it will ever heal.
I also carry memory and witness.
I carry the duty to tell the world
what happened here.”

“If you see our pain and can act, do.
If you can speak, speak.
Goodbye, Gaza.
You will stay with me, always.”

MOHAMMED ABU MUGHAISIB
Our colleague managed to leave
Gaza in September 2025

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Again and again, the civilian population and the medical mission are increasingly unprotected
We demand that measures be taken to stop the attacks and end the impunity

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