KABUL – The United Nations on Sunday released a special report expressing concerns over what it called recent “deliberate attacks” against healthcare workers and facilities in Afghanistan during the COVID-19 pandemic.The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, said it documented 12 incidents of deliberate acts of violence between March 11 to May 23.The report said eight of the incidents were carried out by Taliban insurgents while three incidents were attributed to Afghan security forces.
The most horrific attack, on a maternity ward last month at a Kabul hospital that killed 24 people, remains unsolved.“At a time when an urgent humanitarian response was required to protect every life in Afghanistan, both the Taliban and.