New York – Saba:
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric expressed grave concern over the escalating Zionist attacks on the health system in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Dujarric said in a statement on Tuesday that, according to the Lebanese authorities, 36 incidents were reported in which Zionist raids targeted healthcare facilities between the eighth of October last year and the fourth of October of this month.
Dujarric said at least 96 primary health care centers and three hospitals had been forced to close due to "hostilities," referring to the Zionist bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs.
He added that the attacks affected not only facilities but also health workers, with "the World Health Organization estimating the number of health workers killed in the same period at 77 people."
UN health partners are supporting the Lebanese health authorities and delivering additional kits of trauma and emergency equipment to hospitals, as well as medicines.
Water infrastructure has also been affected, with at least 25 water utilities affected, affecting 300,000 people. He added that his organization's partners were providing drinking water to people in collective shelters.
He explained that the ongoing "hostilities" and displacement orders continue to cause the displacement of people, especially from the south of the country and the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, where the International Organization for Migration has recorded more than 540,000 displaced people since the eighth of October 2023.
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