At least four dead in an Israeli bombing of Beirut’s main hospital

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MADRID 21 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least four people have been killed, including a minor, and 24 more have been injured in an Israeli bombardment on the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the most important in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health has reported these casualty figures and warns that this is a provisional initial evaluation. He also reports “significant damage” to the hospital, according to the official Lebanese news agency, NNA.

The Ministry of Health has previously condemned the attack on the Rafik Hariri Hospital and in general the attacks against the Lebanese health system after this Monday the Israeli Army denounced the existence of a bunker with hundreds of millions of dollars in gold and cash under the Sahel Hospital in the Lebanese capital.

“After threatening the Sahel Hospital in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, which continued to function partially despite the difficult security conditions, the Israeli enemy attacked one of the entrances to the Rafik Hariri Public University Hospital,” the Ministry of Defense denounced. Lebanese health.

The center “continues to function normally with all its medical and health personnel and receives a large number of patients and houses a center of the International Committee of the Red Cross,” he added.

For all these reasons, he denounced “war crimes that do not respect any humanitarian or international law” before recalling the four dead medics and five wounded in addition to several vehicles damaged in the last 24 hours of attacks. Thus, it asks the international community to “break the silence” in the face of “what has happened, what is happening and what could happen.”

On Monday night, at least 15 Israeli attacks were recorded in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, according to official sources, one of them against the fishing port of Uzai.