A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance in Sour, southern Lebanon, June 28, 2024. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L'Orient Today)
Lebanon has experienced its roughest two weeks since the onset of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on Oct. 8, and its hospitals have been strained by the mounting number of casualties. The country’s already overburdened healthcare system was hammered by the economic crisis, leaving the sector grappling with shortages of medical resources.In a series of unprecedented escalations, the Sept. 17 and 18 pager and walkie-talkie blasts killed 42 people and injured more than 3,000, some severely, while Monday’s wave of Israeli bombardments across Lebanese territory killed 558 people and injured over 1,800 in a single day, according to numbers from the Health Ministry. The death toll from Israel's airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday, the first of which leveled six residential buildings and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan...
Lebanon has experienced its roughest two weeks since the onset of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on Oct. 8, and its hospitals have been strained by the mounting number of casualties. The country’s already overburdened healthcare system was hammered by the economic crisis, leaving the sector grappling with shortages of medical resources.In a series of unprecedented escalations, the Sept. 17 and 18 pager and walkie-talkie blasts killed 42 people and injured more than 3,000, some severely, while Monday’s wave of Israeli bombardments across Lebanese territory killed 558 people and injured over 1,800 in a single day, according to numbers from the Health Ministry. The death toll from Israel's airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday, the first of which leveled six residential buildings and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan...
