Humanitarian personnel have become a target in armed conflicts because it is a tactic to sow fear among the civilian population, says Joana Abrisketa, professor of Public International Law at the University of Deusto. The murder in Rwanda of three Spaniards from MSF or the attack on a hospital in Yemen are other examples of how conflicts do not respect a principle protected by international law.
Neither humanitarian personnel nor the facilities in which they carry out their work, saving lives, can be targets of attacks.