Israel targeting hospitals and Lebanese civilians is a ‘war crime’
The Sahel hospital in Beirut, which the Israeli military bombed on Monday, was not “a legitimate target”, says Omar Nashabe, a criminal justice analyst and a former human rights adviser to the Lebanese government.
The targeting of a hospital with civilians inside is a “war crime”, Nashabe told Al Jazeera. “It is the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court to look into these crimes and prosecute those who actually commit these crimes,” he said.
Lloyd Austin says US has seen no evidence of bunker under Beirut hospital
The US defence secretary said he had not seen evidence of a cash- and gold-filled Hezbollah bunker underneath a hospital in Beirut, as claimed by the Israeli military this week.
“We have not seen evidence of that at this moment. But, you know, we will continue to collaborate with our Israeli counterparts to gain better fidelity on exactly what they are looking at,” Austin told reporters in Rome.
The Sahel hospital’s director Fadi Alameh, a Lebanese lawmaker with the Shia Amal Movement party, told the Reuters news agency Israel was making false and slanderous claims. The hospital, located in the southern Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, was evacuated on Tuesday over fears Israeli forces would target it.
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed by Israel last month, commissioned the bunker under the Sahel hospital, designing the underground complex for lengthy stays.
‘More and more’ missiles, rockets launched by Hezbollah towards Israel
On Wednesday evening, at least four rockets were launched from Lebanon heading towards Tel Aviv. That’s according to Israel’s army.
Videos posted on social media sites showed some of those rockets being intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system. In the videos, you can also hear air raid sirens.
At least twice on Wednesday evening, air raid sirens sounded throughout the greater Tel Aviv area in central Israel. In fact, in the past few days, Tel Aviv and parts of the north of the country, like the city of Haifa, have been targeted more and more by missiles and rockets launched from Lebanon.
In the immediate aftermath of the news that four rockets had been launched towards Tel Aviv on Wednesday, news emerged that civilian air traffic had been closed at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.
The fact of the matter is more and more rockets – dozens, usually, per day – are being launched from Lebanon towards Israel. On Wednesday, it was announced by Israel’s army that in the 24 hours of Wednesday, there had been at least 135 rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel.
Israeli strike kills 3 Lebanese soldiers in country’s south
The soldiers were killed, including an officer, in an Israeli attack during the evacuation of wounded people from the outskirts of Yater village in southern Lebanon, the army said in a statement.
Israel’s killing of 3 more Lebanese soldiers ‘a very serious incident’
Three more Lebanese soldiers were killed as they were moving people who had been injured out of the village of Yater in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. It’s not actually that far from here.
Since September 29, a total of 13 Lebanese soldiers have been killed.
The Lebanese army is not fighting the Israelis in these cases. What they are doing is providing support services for the Civil Defence or the emergency services. They are trying to help the civilian population and it is in that role that they have been attacked.
The same as the IDF does to rescue services in Gaza, double tap strategy for maximum casualties.
Attacks by Israel kill 28, injure 139 in one day: Lebanese Health Ministry
The Ministry of Public Health said the 28 were killed across Lebanon in Israeli attacks throughout Wednesday. The latest killings bring the death toll in Lebanon to 2,574 since fighting erupted between Hezbollah and Israel in October last year.
