Israeli Attack Damages Hospital in Southern Lebanon

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JAKARTA - A new wave of Israeli attacks on Saturday (23/5) early morning local time damaged a hospital in the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon, according to the state news agency NNA.

As reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, the attack caused severe damage to the Hiram Hospital, including operating rooms, nurses' quarters, patient rooms, clinics, electrical networks, and building windows.

Other buildings in the city were also reported to have been destroyed and flattened.

Israeli warplanes also destroyed a large number of houses in the surrounding area as well as infrastructure, including water, electricity and internal roads in the settlement area.

Ambulances and civil defense teams were deployed to the site to assess the level of damage.

Not only that, Israeli forces also launched an air raid on the city of Yohmor al-Shaqif.

According to Lebanese officials, more than 3,000 people were killed and another 1.6 million were displaced as a result of Israel's latest attack on Lebanon which began on March 2, shortly after Hezbollah carried out a retaliatory attack related to the Iran war.

Israeli attacks continue despite a US-mediated ceasefire that is still in effect until early July.