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WHO sounds alarms: Over 55 Israeli attacks on Lebanon's medical assets

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  • Source: News websites
  • 1 Nov 2024 14:03
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The WHO has expressed deep concerns and called for immediate action to end the hostile attacks against Lebanon's health workers and facilities.

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  • A truck and ambulance burn after Israeli airstrikes hit a group of paramedics outside a hospital in Marjayoun, south Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP)
    A truck and ambulance burn after Israeli airstrikes hit a group of paramedics outside a hospital in Marjayoun, South Lebanon, Friday, October 4, 2024. (AP)

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm over "Israel's" repeated and escalating attacks on Lebanese health workers and facilities, expressing its "deep concern" during a United Nations session on Friday. 

WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris revealed that 55 attacks have been verified so far, stressing that the number remains a severe underestimation of the actual total of attacks, heightening concerns about worsening conditions for both medical staff and patients.

The WHO's urgent call to address this issue highlights the hazards healthcare workers encounter as violence in the region escalates.

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Israel dropped bombs on an ambulance in South Lebanon, killing 4 paramedics.

173 medical workers have been killed by Israel in Lebanon in just 30 days.

Israel is decimating the healthcare systems of both Lebanon and Palestine, and Western regimes are applauding. pic.twitter.com/6BpQBjcN2d

— sarah (@sahouraxo) October 31, 2024

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'Israel' killed 172 medics in Lebanon

The Israeli occupation deliberately targeted an assembly point where the Civil Defense's Islamic Health Authority had gathered, in the Dardghaya junction, in the Tyre district, killing four medics, the Lebanese Health Ministry revealed on Thursday. 

In a statement, the ministry revealed that "Israel" targeted another Islamic Health Authority location, this time in the town of Selaa, in the Tyre district. Although their vehicle was set ablaze, the medics miraculously survived. 

However, in Deir al-Zahrani, South Lebanon, the Israeli entity struck an ambulance, leading to the martyrdom of one medic and the injury of two others. In Zefta, Nabatieh, an Israeli airstrike bombarded another ambulance, killing a medic and injuring two more. 

The Lebanese Health Ministry stated that it was witnessing a series of attacks on medics, amounting to four consecutive assaults over a period of three hours only, raising the death toll of medical workers and volunteers in Lebanon to 172 since the start of the aggression on Lebanon, alongside 279 injuries and 246 destroyed vehicles. 

"The international community's silence toward this brutality is unjustified, during a time when efforts should be exerted to abide by international law and put an end to this monstrous machine that continues to target working crews on the frontlines."

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