The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced today, Saturday, its intention to evacuate hospitals in Southern suburb of BeirutDue to unprecedented raids that the suburb had not witnessed since the July 2006 war.
The Ministry said, in a statement, that it calls on hospitals in Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and areas not affected by the Israeli aggression to stop receiving non-emergency cases until the end of next week.
The Ministry attributed this call to making room for receiving patients in hospitals in the southern suburb of Beirut, which will be evacuated due to developments in the aggression.
The Ministry called on hospitals and health centers to “be prepared to care for sick people displaced from the southern suburbs last night.”
At dawn today, Saturday, Israeli fighters launched a series of violent and successive raids on buildings in various areas of the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, hours after it announced the targeting of the Central Command of…Hezbollah And the Secretary-General of the party Hassan Nasrallah.
Israeli warplanes launched more than 40 raids – during the evening of last Friday and at dawn today – on buildings in the areas of Burj Al-Barajneh, Al-Kafaat, Choueifat, Hadath and Al-Layliki in the southern suburb of Beirut, causing fires and massive destruction in several sites and buildings.
