Israel killed at the least 208 healthcare staff and carried out greater than 280 assaults on emergency medical services in Lebanon over the previous yr.
The Israeli military repeatedly assaults well being services and medical staff in Lebanon.
As of Nov. 15, Israel has killed at the least 208 well being care staff and injured 311 others, in keeping with Lebanon's Ministry of Public Well being.
The ministry additionally recorded at the least 286 Israeli assaults on well being providers, together with 66 assaults on hospitals and 220 on emergency medical providers.
Consequently, some 40 hospitals have been broken, eight of which have been rendered inoperative, and 249 emergency autos have been broken, in what human rights organizations contemplate to represent attainable conflict crimes.
On Thursday, Israel killed at the least 12 medics in an airstrike on a civil protection middle in Lebanon's jap Baalbek area.
The assaults are forcing medical services to shut, in a rustic the place the privatized well being system was already in dire straits as a result of an ongoing financial disaster.
Brief on workers and assets, the well being system has been struggling to keep up providers for all these in want, fighting depleted provides and exhausted well being staff.
Israel has killed at the least three,452 folks and wounded greater than 14,664 in Lebanon since hostilities started final October between Israel and Hezbollah.
The place are assaults on healthcare occurring?
Of the 66 Israeli assaults on hospitals in Lebanon, the bulk befell within the southern and western areas of the nation and within the capital, Beirut, and a few hospitals have been attacked a number of instances.
On October 24, the Ministry of Well being reported that at the least eight hospitals had been compelled to shut, half of them within the Baabda district of western Lebanon.
Seven different hospitals are solely partially functioning.
Moreover, Israeli forces have attacked major well being care facilities at the least 25 instances, ensuing within the compelled closure of 58 facilities.
Assaults on emergency staff
Israel has carried out greater than 220 assaults towards emergency medical providers, in keeping with the Lebanese Ministry of Well being.
It has additionally attacked ambulances, fireplace vehicles and different rescue autos 249 instances.
Israel has accused Hezbollah of utilizing ambulances to move weapons, with out offering any proof.
Do these assaults represent conflict crimes?
Hospitals and medical services are protected beneath worldwide regulation as a result of they’re civilian services.
Final month, Human Rights Watch documented three assaults on medical services involving obvious conflict crimes.
On October three, Israeli forces attacked an ambulance and the subsequent day a hospital in southern Lebanon, killing 14 paramedics.
On October 22, Israel killed 13 folks in an assault close to a hospital in southern Beirut, in keeping with the Lebanese Ministry of Well being.
The in a single day assault close to Rafik Hariri College Hospital, Lebanon's largest public well being middle, a number of kilometers from the town middle, additionally wounded 57 folks, the ministry mentioned.
