The phrase "attacks on hospitals" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about violence or conflict, particularly in contexts involving healthcare facilities and their protection.
Example: "The recent reports of attacks on hospitals have raised serious concerns about the safety of medical personnel and patients in conflict zones."
Alternatives: "assaults against hospitals" or "strikes on healthcare facilities".
There are occasional controversies, momentary outcry over one event or another, "mistaken" attacks on hospitals and schools.
All intentional attacks on hospitals and humanitarian workers are in contravention of international law.
They died from disproportionate attacks on legitimate military targets and from attacks on hospitals and other civilian structures.
The indiscriminate attacks on hospitals and civilians – either targeted or conveniently labelled collateral damage – add an extra layer of complexity.
Attacks on hospitals "deprive families and communities of essential health care when they need it most," they said.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon said this week that attacks on hospitals amounted to a war crimes.
A motion submitted by the BMA's division in Islington, north London, said the conference "notes with disgust the secretary for health's attack on hospitals, accusing hard-pressed NHS staff of 'mediocrity and coasting'.
Either way, as the attack on Oxford flared into a wider attack on hospital consultants, judges, diplomats and other "elites", the government seems to have realised that it was in danger of frightening the aspirational voters of Middle England it had worked so hard to seduce.
"Let's lay down some rules" we could say to the rest of the world, and then we could all start creating a few definitions and banning certain tactics (like, for instance, a cyber attack on hospital management software -- which could grind hospitals' capacity to deal with emergencies to an absolute standstill).
These are tough times, when tightening budgets have led to historic attacks on schools, hospitals, and public services.
He condemned the attacks on the hospitals and said he did not understand why they kept happening.
