Health workers killed in Lebanon

Following the sirens that sounded in the Haifa area in northern Israel early this morning, the Israeli military said about 10 projectiles were identified as crossing from Lebanon.

Some of the projectiles were intercepted and others were identified as having fallen in open areas, the Israeli army said, without elaborating on any casualties or damage.

In a later statement, the IDF said the launcher from which the rockets were fired was struck by Israeli fighter jets. It added that it “struck terrorist infrastructure sites and terrorist cells belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in numerous areas in southern Lebanon” in dozens of additional strikes.

Attacks on health care are on the rise in Lebanon amid a ramped up offensive by Israel, the World Health Organization representative in the country, Abdinasir Abubakar, said on X today.

“24 attacks on health care were recorded so far, resulting in 27 deaths & 55 injuries for health workers,” Abubakar said.

“This is unacceptable trend,” he added.

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese area of Mahmudiyah on Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday after striking a defiant note the day before as he vowed to continue hitting Hezbollah “with all our might.”

Netanyahu said Israel will not stop “until we achieve all our goals” despite international calls, including from the U.S., for an immediate 21-day cease-fire across the Israel-Lebanon border.

However, another statement from the prime minister’s office today cited “a lot of misreporting around the U.S.-led ceasefire initiative,” saying Israel shares its aims and “appreciates the U.S. efforts in this regard.”

It added that Israeli and American teams met yesterday to discuss the proposal and more discussions will be held in the coming days.

Lebanon’s health ministry said that 92 people had been killed and another 154 injured in Israeli raids across southern, central and eastern Lebanon during the previous 24 hours.

The ministry said over 700 people have been killed since the start of Israel’s new aerial offensive on Lebanon on Monday.