[Salon] Fwd: Haaretz: "Doctors, Nurses Among 23 Killed in Israeli Strikes Across Country, Lebanese Health Ministry Says." (3/13/26)

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3/14/26

Doctors, Nurses Among 23 Killed in Israeli Strikes Across Country, Lebanese Health Ministry Says - Middle East News

A destroyed healthcare center building after an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese town of Burj Qalawiya, on Saturday. Credit: Kawnat Haju / AFP

Israeli airstrikes have killed 23 people in Lebanon since early Saturday, the country's health ministry said. Twelve of the dead were doctors, nurses, and paramedics killed when a primary healthcare centre in a southern town near the border was struck.

Their deaths raise the total number of medical personnel killed in Lebanon since the start of the war to 28, the ministry said.

The Norwegian Refugee Council said one million Lebanese have been displaced from their homes since the conflict began.

According to the Health Ministry, the death toll in the Nabatieh health center strike could rise as rescue operations continue and teams search for missing people who are believed to be trapped under the rubble. The ministry also reported that another medical staff member was wounded in the attack. It condemned the strike on the medical center, saying in a statement that the attack violates international humanitarian law, which protects medical personnel.

United Nations personnel drive past a destroyed healthcare centre building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese town of Burj Qalawiya, on Saturday. Credit: Kawnat Haju / AFP

The medical center that was attacked belongs to the "Islamic Health Association," linked to Hezbollah. After the strike, IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued an Arabic statement warning that "military use of medical facilities must cease." The statement that the IDF "will act in accordance with international law against Hezbollah's military activity using these facilities and ambulances."

Another attack in Nabatieh district killed seven people in the Nuzairat neighborhood. According to a report from the Lebanese National News Agency, four more were killed in an airstrike on a residential apartment in the Harat Zayda area, also in southern Lebanon. The IDF spokesperson said that 110 Hezbollah command centers have been targeted since the start of the war.

According to Lebanon's health ministry, 773 people have been killed by IDF fire since the start of the current war, including 100 children and teenagers. The ministry also reported that roughly 2,000 others have been wounded.