South Sudan, Dec. 4 -- A Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) health facility was hit in an airstrike by a helicopter gunship on the morning of Wednesday, December 3, in the town of Pieri, Jonglei state, South Sudan. This strike is part of an alarming trend of attacks affecting medical facilities in the country.

MSF teams found bullets that hit the Pieri Primary Health Care Center, but staff members and patients were unharmed and there were no reported casualties in the local community. In Lankien, where MSF also runs medical facilities, our teams subsequently witnessed airstrikes without direct damage to infrastructure or reported casualties.

In both locations, all MSF staff remain safe. MSF is the only health care pr...