HOSPITAL HIT
The ministry mentioned one of many strikes in Nabatieh al-Fawqa “completely destroyed” the out-of-service Ghandour hospital, decrying “one other grave violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation”.
Israel’s military mentioned it focused Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure, together with “weapons storage amenities and terrorist buildings”, in addition to “a Hezbollah command centre that had been established inside a constructing beforehand used as a hospital”.
It had earlier issued its first evacuation discover in Lebanon in a month, warning residents close to a constructing it referred to as a Hezbollah facility in Arab Salim to depart forward of an assault on the positioning.
It didn’t problem warnings for different areas the place strikes had been reported.
Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company (NNA) mentioned that after the Israeli warning for Arab Salim, “enemy warplanes launched a strike on one other home, destroying it” and killing the 2 girls.
It mentioned the Israeli navy subsequently carried out a strike on the constructing threatened within the evacuation warning.
On the scene of the second strike, an AFP correspondent noticed the ruins of a devastated villa, with giant ornamental columns laying on their aspect subsequent to stairs plagued by rubble.
Haidar Haidar, the brother of the constructing’s proprietor, advised AFP that no person had been residing inside.
On the different web site in Arab Salim the place the 2 girls had been killed, a mattress, furnishings and different objects together with a Hezbollah flag had been strewn among the many rubble, whereas neighbouring buildings had been additionally broken.
