Four Lebanese hospitals announced that they were suspending their activity on Friday October 4. Sainte-Thérèse hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut is ceasing its services due to Israeli strikes nearby, as are three other establishments in the south of the country, the Lebanese national information agency reported. Earlier, the Israeli army announced that it had carried out a new round of strikes overnight on the south of the capital, a Hezbollah stronghold. The official Lebanese news agency ANI reported “more than ten consecutive strikes”. Israel also declared on Friday that it had killed “250 Hezbollah fighters” since the start of the ground offensive on Monday. Follow our live stream.
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Israel says it has carried out strikes on the Lebanese-Syrian border. Israeli army says it struck overnight “infrastructure sites adjacent to the Masnaa border post, between Syria and Lebanon“, used by Hezbollah. According to this source, these air raids aimed to prevent the entry of weapons into Lebanon from Syria and targeted in particular “an underground tunnel used to smuggle weapons across the border.” According to the Lebanese agency ANI, this raid led to the cutting of the international road between the two countries.
Nearly 2,000 dead in Lebanon. According to official figures, nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since the worsening of violence on the border between Hezbollah and the Israeli army in October 2023. The Lebanese government estimates the number of displaced at around 1.2 million . The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on the night of Thursday to Friday the death of 37 people in 24 hours in various Israeli strikes.
At least four hospitals in Lebanon, including one near the southern suburbs of Beirut, announced Friday that they were suspending their activities due to Israeli strikes on the country, which Hezbollah rescue workers said killed 11 of their members.
The private Sainte Thérèse hospital near the southern suburbs announced that it would cease its services due to bombings nearby, and reported “immense damage” in the establishment run by sisters, in a press release reported by the national agency Lebanese news ANI.
Two public hospitals in southern Lebanon have also announced that they are suspending their activity, according to the same source.