Three Lebanese hospitals hit by Israeli forces in under a week

Key points

• Three hospitals in southern Lebanon have been attacked by Israel in under a week, wounding more than 150 people and killing nine, according to Lebanon’s ministry of health.
• Israel carried out an attack in the immediate vicinity of the public hospital in Tebnine on Wednesday, just days after strikes next to the Hiram and Jabal Amel hospitals in Tyre.
• The attack next to Jabal Amel on Monday killed four people and injured 127 – most of whom were medical staff.
• “It was an ordinary day at the hospital and then suddenly for no reason, they targeted the hospital.
• It was a catastrophe,” said Wael Mroueh, the director of Jabal Amel.