The number of victims of the aggression against Lebanon has risen
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The death toll from the Israeli war on Lebanon has risen to 1,189 martyrs and 3,427 wounded, according to the latest toll reported by the country’s Ministry of Health on Saturday evening. With rocket-propelled grenades and drones. The Israeli bombing and ground incursion continues on Lebanese territory, and many citizens were martyred on Saturday, including journalists and paramedics. On the other hand, the occupation army announced that 9 officers and soldiers were seriously injured and mediated, as clashes continued with Hezbollah members in several axes. The occupation army also announced the extension of the restrictions imposed on the instructions of the Home Front, and to keep them unchanged, until Monday at eight in the evening. While the Cabinet will hold the Cabinet tonight, to discuss and assess the situation in light of the continuation of the war on Iran and Lebanon. The Lebanese Minister of Health announced that 51 martyrs from the health sector have been killed as a result of the Israeli raids since March 2, while the Lebanese army announced the death of one of its members in an Israeli raid on the town of Deir al-Zahrani, in the south of the country. The Lebanese Minister of Health, Rakan Nasser El-Din, announced the increase in the pace of Israeli targeting of the health sector, medical personnel and ambulances in southern Lebanon, noting, during a press conference at the Ministry’s headquarters in Beirut, this evening, that the attacks crossed all red lines. and international conventions. The minister explained that the Israeli targets rose during the last 12 hours and resulted in the death of five paramedics in southern Lebanon and two journalists. Nasir El-Din indicated that the summary of the attacks on the medical sector until now reached 75, of which five were in the morning, Saturday. Their duty, which led to the fall of two paramedics and the injury of three.
The Minister of Health explained that the number of hospitals targeted by the Israeli occupation has reached nine, and the attacks have forced the closure of five others. The number of martyrs in the Lebanese health sector has reached 51, including 46 paramedics and five other healthcare workers, nine of whom were killed today alone.
Nasser Eddine emphasized that “this pattern employed by the Israeli occupation does not target just one group, but rather ambulance services.”
The Minister addressed the legal violations committed by the Israeli aggression against the health sector, stressing that all agreements, including the Geneva Conventions and the protocols signed by Lebanon, stipulate the protection of the medical sector and its neutrality from targeting. He also cited the Hague Convention, which provides protection for civilian buildings, including medical facilities.
He criticized the occupation’s claims of using these facilities for military purposes and called on journalists to “expose these buildings.”
Nasser al-Din confirmed in press statements that the ministry “continues to coordinate with the World Health Organization, and is a partner in supporting the health sector at this stage in which the sector is exposed to Israeli targeting, and also with regard to documenting Israeli violations of the sector.”
