One of the largest waves of Israeli strikes so far has just hit over 60 locations across Beirut and beyond.
Deaths are mounting. Destruction is massive. Civilians are paying the price. Again.
They are not a target. They must be protected.
While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.
1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.
Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.
Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.
Multiple attacks on health have been reported in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in recent days amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
The Pasteur Institute in Iran sustained significant damage and was rendered unable to continue delivering health services.
The Institute was established in 1920 and has been operating for over a century in multiple areas of medical research. It plays an important role in protecting and promoting population health, including in emergencies. Two of its departments have been working with @WHO as collaborating centres.
In addition, the Delaram Sina Psychiatric Hospital sustained significant damage due to a strike on 29 March, and the Tofigh Daru pharmaceutical facility, which produced medicines for treating cancer and multiple sclerosis, was damaged in another attack on 31 March.
No casualties were reported from these incidents.
Since 1 March, WHO has verified over 20 attacks on health care in Iran, resulting in at least nine deaths, including that of an infectious diseases health worker and a member of the Iranian Red Crescent Society.
Attacks on health have also been recorded outside Tehran, including on 21 March, when an explosion nearby Imam Ali Hospital in Andimeshk, Khuzestan province, led to the facility’s evacuation and cessation of services.
The conflict in Iran, and the region, is impacting the delivery of health services and the safety of health workers, patients, and civilians present at health facilities.
Peace is the best medicine.
“This kind of on-off humanitarian aid situation [in #Gaza] is not acceptable under international humanitarian law. And it’s also unacceptable in terms of humanity, because people need to be able to recover”, our @UN_JWFOWLER tells @cnnturk.
Humanitarian aid should never be politicised. Restrictions on aid must be lifted to reach people in dire need.
Scores of Palestinians have been killed by settlers or soldiers in recent weeks in a broad effort that enjoys the tacit and sometimes active support of the Israeli government https://t.co/5vVx2ItcwH
"It puts the rest of us in a very scary, dangerous position… We don't know who's going to be next."
Journalist @OliverGMarsden comments on the killing of three colleagues by Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
A toddler returned to his mother with burns on each leg after being held by Israeli forces - with a doctor describing them as marks of "torture" likely caused by deliberate cigarette burn
https://t.co/cROc1imkkr
“The two senior correspondents were very well known in Lebanon. They now reach more than 20 journalists in Lebanon who have been targeted by Israeli strikes since October 2023.” our @AlexCrawfordSky on the latest from Lebanon
🇮🇱 Israeli soldiers point rifles at CNN journalists… then choke one on camera
All while documenting an illegal settler outpost in the West Bank, where a 75-year-old man was reportedly beaten inside his home.
Source: CNN
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This is how you report Israeli attempts to demonise the journalists they murder. The contrast with @BBCNews extraordinary. @SkyNews rightly leading with the story.
BREAKING: Three people have been killed, including two journalists, after an Israeli strike on a media car in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli military have said those killed worked for Hezbollah affiliated channels.
Live updates: https://t.co/Oh9HezhzAS
Nearly 1,500 Iranian civilians have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes that have hit schools, hospitals and other nonmilitary infrastructure since the Iran war began last month, human rights groups alleged in a new report.
https://t.co/X6vuA7Jwk4
An Israeli attack on a marked media car in Lebanon has killed at least three Lebanese journalists.
One of the reporters who died had recently reported on the death of seven relatives in an attack on her family home. The Lebanese PM condemned the killings.
Ten-year-old Sajed was playing football outside his home in Lebanon when a missile hit a house and killed him.
More than 120 Lebanese children have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, with more than 300 wounded.
Sky's @AlexCrawfordSky reports.
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Israel has launched extensive airstrikes in Lebanon, displacing more than a million people in a campaign targeting the Iran-backed militia group Hezbollah. I spoke with Lebanese @FT journalist @KimGhattas about the impact of this conflict on the ground.