The latest warnings took the number of southern towns subject to evacuation calls to 70 and included the provincial capital Nabatieh, suggesting another Israeli military operation was imminent, further stoking fears of an all-out regional war.
Yesterday Israel bombed central Beirut in an attack the Lebanese health ministry said killed nine people. A Hezbollahlinked civil defence group said seven of its staff, including two medics, were killed in the Beirut attack. In response, Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, accused Israel of a possible breach of humanitarian law.
“Not only are civilians victims of attacks, including in densely populated areas, but they are deprived of emergency care. I condemn this violation of IHL [international humanitarian law],” he wrote on Twitter/X. Israel denies all such accusations.
The World Health Organisation chief said 28 healthcare workers had been killed over the past 24 hours in Lebanon. "Many health workers are not reporting to duty and fled the areas where they work due to bombardments," director general Dr 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.
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