Israel has killed at least 208 health sector workers and carried out more than 280 attacks on emergency medical facilities in Lebanon over the past year.The Israeli military is repeatedly targeting healthcare facilities and medical workers in Lebanon.
As of November 15, Israel has killed at least 208 health sector workers and injured 311 others according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.
The ministry also recorded at least 286 Israeli attacks on healthcare services, including 66 attacks on hospitals and 220 on emergency medical services.
As a result, some 40 hospitals have been damaged, with eight rendered nonfunctional, and 249 emergency vehicles have been damaged, in what human rights organisations say constitutes potential war crimes.
On Thursday, Israel killed at least 12 medics in an air strike on a civil defence centre in Lebanon’s eastern Baalbek region.
The attacks are forcing medical facilities to close, in a country where the privatised healthcare system was already in dire straits due to an ongoing economic crisis.
Understaffed and under-resourced, the health system has been struggling to maintain services for all those in need, struggling with depleted supplies and exhausted health workers.
Israel has killed at least 3,452 people and injured more than 14,664 in Lebanon since hostilities began last October between Israel and Hezbollah.
Where are healthcare attacks taking place?
Of the 66 Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s hospitals, most have taken place in the country’s southern and western regions and the capital Beirut, with some hospitals struck multiple times.
On October 24, the Health Ministry reported at least …