Israel’s intensified air campaign against Hezbollah has upended a country already grappling with multiple crises and personal losses.
When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen.
“We have zero capabilities, zero logistics,” Arkadan said. “We have no gloves, no personal protection gear.”Israel’s intensified air campaign against Hezbollah has upended the country. More than 1000 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since September 17, nearly a quarter of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry.
First responders: Ambulances arrive at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday.A day after Iran fired more than 180 missiles into Israel, Israel said eight of its soldiers were killed in ground combat in south Lebanon. Lebanon is “grappling with multiple crises, which have overwhelmed the country’s capacity to cope,” said Imran Riza, the United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, who said the body had allocated $US24 million in emergency funding for people affected by the fighting.
People and rescue teams search for victims after an Israeli airstrike hit two adjacent buildings, in Ain el-Delb neighbourhood east of the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.“Anyone here?” rescuers shouted through the gaps in mounds of rubble, searching for survivors buried deeper underground. One excavator removed the debris slowly, to avoid shaking the heaps of bricks and mangled steel.
One of the district’s four hospitals shut after sustaining damage from a strike that affected its electricity supply and damaged the operations room. In two other hospitals, glass windows were broken. For now, the city’s hospitals are receiving more killed than wounded.
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