Omid Hospital Kabul

Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital:
At least 400 people were killed and more than 250 were injured after Pakistan carried out cross-border airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on February 20 and 21. Islamabad said the strikes precisely targeted terrorist camps and were launched in response to recent attacks inside Pakistan.

However, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has put the death toll at 143.

Satellite images captured on March 20 show the aftermath of the strikes on Kabul’s Omid Hospital, a 2,000-bed facility. What was once a cluster of organised buildings, including one large roofed structure and several smaller surrounding facilities, now lies in rubble. The layout appears consistent with a civilian rehabilitation centre rather than the regimented formations typically associated with a military installation.

The facility is located at the former Camp Phoenix, a NATO base once operated by the US Army. After the 2021 Taliban takeover, the site was converted into Afghanistan’s largest rehabilitation centre for drug addicts. Less than three miles from Kabul’s international airport, the hospital is run by the Interior Ministry, which also oversees the country’s counternarcotics department.

The Omid hospital was renamed and expanded in size roughly a year ago from the Ibn Sina Drug Addiction Treatment Hospital. The site is located near a former NATO military base, Camp Phoenix, where U.S. forces used to train the Afghan National Army. After the Taliban seized control of the country in 2021, the base was taken over by Afghanistan's new authorities. It wasn't immediately clear what was now housed on the site of the former base.

Pakistan claimed responsibility for the strike but maintains that it had targeted a “military terrorist ammunition and equipment storage site.”(20260321)