Mapping Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s healthcare system

Israel has killed astatine slightest 208 wellness assemblage workers and carried retired much than 280 attacks connected exigency aesculapian facilities successful Lebanon implicit the past year.

The Israeli subject is repeatedly targeting healthcare facilities and aesculapian workers successful Lebanon.

As of November 15, Israel has killed astatine slightest 208 wellness assemblage workers and injured 311 others according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.

The ministry besides recorded astatine slightest 286 Israeli attacks connected healthcare services, including 66 attacks connected hospitals and 220 connected exigency aesculapian services.

As a result, immoderate 40 hospitals person been damaged, with 8 rendered nonfunctional, and 249 exigency vehicles person been damaged, successful what human rights organisations say constitutes imaginable warfare crimes.

On Thursday, Israel killed astatine slightest 12 medics successful an aerial onslaught connected a civilian defence centre successful Lebanon’s eastbound Baalbek region.

The attacks are forcing aesculapian facilities to close, successful a state wherever the privatised healthcare strategy was already successful dire straits owed to an ongoing economical crisis.

Understaffed and under-resourced, the wellness strategy has been struggling to support services for each those successful need, struggling with depleted supplies and exhausted wellness workers.

Israel has killed astatine slightest 3,452 radical and injured much than 14,664 successful Lebanon since hostilities began past October betwixt Israel and Hezbollah.

Where are healthcare attacks taking place?

Of the 66 Israeli attacks connected Lebanon’s hospitals, astir person taken spot successful the country’s confederate and occidental regions and the superior Beirut, with immoderate hospitals struck aggregate times.

On October 24, the Health Ministry reported astatine slightest 8 hospitals had been forced to close, with fractional of them successful the Baabda territory successful occidental Lebanon.

Seven different hospitals are lone partially functioning.

In addition, Israeli forces person attacked superior healthcare facilities astatine slightest 25 times, resulting successful the forcible closure of 58 facilities.

Attacks connected exigency workers

Israel has perpetrated much than 220 attacks connected exigency aesculapian services, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

It has besides attacked ambulances, occurrence trucks and different rescue vehicles 249 times.

Israel has accused Hezbollah of utilizing ambulances to transport weapons, without providing immoderate evidence.

(Al Jazeera)

Do these attacks represent warfare crimes?

Hospitals and aesculapian facilities are protected nether planetary instrumentality due to the fact that they are civilian installations.

Last month, Human Rights Watch documented 3 attacks connected aesculapian facilities involving evident warfare crimes.

On October 3, Israeli forces attacked an ambulance, and a infirmary successful confederate Lebanon the pursuing day, sidesplitting 14 paramedics.

On October 22, Israel killed 13 people successful a onslaught adjacent a infirmary successful confederate Beirut, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The overnight onslaught adjacent Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Lebanon’s biggest nationalist wellness facility, a fewer kilometres from the metropolis centre, besides wounded 57 people, the ministry said.

Rescuers hunt for survivors astatine the tract of an Israeli onslaught adjacent Rafik Hariri University Hospital [Yara Nardi/Reuters]