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 emergency aesculapian accommodation successful Lebanon complete nan past year.

The Israeli subject is many times targeting healthcare accommodation 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 emergency aesculapian services.

As a result, immoderate 40 hospitals person been damaged, pinch 8 rendered nonfunctional, and 249 emergency vehicles person been damaged, successful what human authorities 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 accommodation to close, successful a state wherever nan privatised healthcare strategy was already successful dire straits owed to an ongoing economical crisis.

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

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

Where are healthcare attacks taking place?

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

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

Seven different hospitals are only partially functioning.

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

Attacks connected emergency workers

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

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

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

(Al Jazeera)

Do these attacks represent warfare crimes?

Hospitals and aesculapian accommodation are protected nether world rule because they are civilian installations.

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

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

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

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

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