WHO Says 28 Health Workers Killed in Lebanon by Israeli Strikes over 24 hours

Smoke billows after an Israeli air strike on a village in southern Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

Asharq Al Awsat

15:29-3 October 2024 AD ـ 30 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1446 AH

Asharq Al Awsat

15:29-3 October 2024 AD ـ 30 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1446 AH

WHO Says 28 Health Workers Killed in Lebanon by Israeli Strikes over 24 hours

The World Health Organization chief said on Thursday that 28 healthcare workers had been killed over the past 24 hours in Lebanon, where Israel has launched airstrikes.

"Many (other) health workers are not reporting to duty and fled the areas where they work due to bombardments," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online press briefing.

"This is severely limiting the provision of mass trauma management and continuity of health services," he said, Reuters reported.

The global health agency will not be able to deliver a large planned shipment of trauma and medical supplies to the country on Friday due to flight restrictions, he added.

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Lebanese Red Cross Says Israeli Strike Killed 4 of its Medics, Lebanese Soldier

Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

Beirut: Asharq Al Awsat

12:08-3 October 2024 AD ـ 30 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1446 AH

Beirut: Asharq Al Awsat

12:08-3 October 2024 AD ـ 30 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1446 AH

Lebanese Red Cross Says Israeli Strike Killed 4 of its Medics, Lebanese Soldier

The Lebanese Red Cross said Thursday that an Israeli strike killed four of its paramedics and a Lebanese army soldier as they were evacuating wounded people from the south.

It said the convoy near the village of Taybeh, which was accompanied by Lebanese troops, was targeted despite coordinating its movements with UN peacekeepers.

An escalation in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah over the past two weeks has led to clashes between the two sides inside Lebanon.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel at the start of the Gaza war in support of Hamas, causing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents whom Israel says need to return home.

In Lebanon, nearly 1,900 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in nearly a year of cross-border fighting, with most of the deaths occurring in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics.

More than a million Lebanese have been forced to flee their homes.

In a separate development, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of villages and towns in southern Lebanon that are north of a United Nations-declared buffer zone established after the 2006 war. The warnings issued Thursday signaled a possible broadening of Israel’s incursion into southern Lebanon, which until now has been confined to areas close to the border.

At least eight Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where Israel announced the start of what it says is a limited ground incursion earlier this week.

WHO Says 28 Health Workers Killed in Lebanon by Israeli Strikes over 24 hours

WHO Says 28 Health Workers Killed in Lebanon by Israeli Strikes over 24 hours

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Lebanese Red Cross Says Israeli Strike Killed 4 of its Medics, Lebanese Soldier

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