Tyre hospital hit as Lebanon mourns medics killed in Israeli strikes
Tyre’s hospital was hit as Lebanon buried medics killed in back-to-back Israeli strikes, sharpening doubts that the U.S.-brokered truce can actually hold.
A strike damaged the Lebanese Italian Hospital in Tyre and forced new evacuation warnings for neighborhoods around the city, turning the ceasefire’s latest test into a direct assault on Lebanon’s medical lifeline. The damage came as families buried paramedics killed a day earlier, underscoring how civilians and health workers keep absorbing the cost of a truce that has not stopped the fire.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said Friday’s Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed 10 people, including six paramedics and a Syrian girl. The ministry said six medics were killed in two strikes within 24 hours, one in Hanaway that killed four paramedics from the Islamic Health Association and another in Deir Qanoun En-Nahr that killed two medics from the Al-Rissala Scouts Association.
The ministry condemned the attacks as violations of international law. Funerals for the slain paramedics were held on Saturday, even as Israel renewed strikes on Tyre after issuing evacuation warnings for several neighborhoods in and around the city.
The hit on the Lebanese Italian Hospital carried the conflict into one of the last places civilians expect to be protected. AFP reported that the strike injured 11 people, while the hospital’s chief executive said the building had been damaged during the renewed attacks. The warnings that followed pushed more residents to move again, extending the toll beyond the dead and wounded to families forced to leave homes, doctors scrambling to keep wards open, and patients whose care has been interrupted.
The violence also exposed the weakness of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war. The truce has been repeatedly tested by near-daily attacks and retaliatory fire, with no clear sign that the attacks on medics and a hospital have been enough to halt the cycle. NBC News reported that at least 95 emergency medical services workers and volunteers, mainly paramedics, have been killed since Israel’s ground and aerial assault began, a grim measure of how deeply the health sector has been hit.
For Tyre and the villages around it, the question is no longer whether the ceasefire exists on paper. It is whether anyone can enforce it fast enough to stop the next ambulance, the next clinic, or the next hospital from becoming the next casualty.
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