Israeli strike kills four medics in Lebanon, causes hospital shutdown
Four health workers have been killed in an Israeli drone strike that hit near a hospital in the Lebanese town of Marjayoun.
Amid the indiscriminate Israeli strikes on Lebanon, medical staff of Marjayoun Government Hospital were evacuated, and hospital operations were halted.
“No one from the medical staff was wounded, but we have decided to evacuate temporarily until the security situation becomes clearer,” hospital director Mounes Klakesh said.
Earlier reports said the drone attack hit an ambulance belonging to the Islamic Health Authority opposite the hospital.
Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad on Thursday noted that more than 40 paramedics and firefighters had been killed by Israeli fire in three days.
The Israeli strikes came as part of the regime’s escalation against Hezbollah. Hundreds of people have been killed across the country since late September.
Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
At least 1,974 people have been killed by Israeli fire, 127 of them children, and more than 9,350 others wounded since the clashes began last year, the health minister said on Thursday.
Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed more than 41,788 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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