Israeli army assaults in Lebanon affected greater than 20 hospitals, with 5 out of fee and 22 partially broken, Youssef Bakash, head of the Lebanese Doctors Syndicate, instructed Al Jazeera.
Baksh stated on Tuesday that about 150 medical employees have been killed, together with 4 medical doctors “finishing up humanitarian and medical missions”. As a results of the strike, greater than 100 main care facilities have been pressured to shut and 150 ambulances have been destroyed, the physician added.
Attacks on medical amenities and employees within the nation have continued all through the previous yr, however have intensified since September, when combating between Hezbollah and Israel escalated, Baksh stated.
“The goal of those assaults is to cripple this sector,” the physician stated.
A CNN evaluation has discovered that Lebanon’s largest public hospital was not a part of the evacuation order issued by the army.
In an interview with CNN on Monday, an official at one other hospital in central Beirut vehemently denied the Israeli army’s accusation that Hezbollah bunkers have been positioned underground, calling them “baseless.”
The Israeli army says a bunker believed to be positioned beneath the Sahel General Hospital holds “thousands and thousands of {dollars} in gold and money” and “features as Hezbollah’s central monetary facility.” Ta. Computer-generated graphics and illustrations of the bunker have been proven, however CNN couldn’t confirm them.
Fadi Fakhri Alameh, one of many administrators of the Sahel General Hospital, stated the Israeli army had made comparable claims in Gaza earlier than concentrating on the hospital. “Now they’re doing it in Lebanon,” he stated.