Rescuers search for survivors under the rubble a day after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburb of Jnah.
Photo: IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP
The number of people wounded following a deadly Israeli strike near a hospital on the outskirts of Beirut has risen to 57, Lebanon’s health ministry says.
At least 13 people, including a child, were killed in the attack outside the Rafik Hariri University Hospital on Monday, the ministry previously said.
The facility is considered to be the largest public hospital in Lebanon.
Another 57 people were wounded in the strike, according to a preliminary toll from the ministry. The strike caused “a lot of damage” at the hospital, the ministry said.
The strike was not in an area covered by evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military, a CNN analysis found. The military previously said it hit a “Hezbollah terrorist target” in a strike near the hospital, and that the hospital was not targeted.
– CNN/ Reuters
