They speak of bombing “medical infrastructure.” Define the term. They mean the physical buildings, the vials of medicine, the beds. But infrastructure is more than stone and glass - it is the system of knowledge that heals. The method of diagnosis, the precise compounding of remedies, the training of physicians. These cannot be bombed, only abandoned.

They assume the destruction is surgical, that it harms only the combatants. This is empirically false. The sick and injured are not combatants. The assumption that war can be contained within neat boundaries is a fantasy of those who have never traced the consequences of an action through a population.

If the library burns, the scrolls are lost. But the theorems within them - the proofs - can be remembered, rewritten. Here, the medicines are destroyed, but the formulas for compounding them, the knowledge of dosage and application - that is the true infrastructure. It must be preserved, copied, hidden, taught in basements if necessary. The method outlasts the institution. To attack healing is to wage war on reason itself.