Lebanon’s health ministry has announced that hospitals in Beirut’s southern suburbs will be evacuated following a series of heavy Israeli airstrikes in the area.
In response to the escalating situation, the ministry has called on hospitals in regions not impacted by the strikes to halt the admission of non-emergency cases.
This directive is intended to ensure sufficient capacity to treat patients from the evacuated hospitals.
The ministry’s statement, issued on Saturday, urged unaffected hospitals to keep beds available for patients transferred from the southern suburbs, asking them to refrain from taking in non-urgent cases until the end of the following week.
Although the statement highlighted the seriousness of the situation, the health ministry has not yet provided an updated figure on casualties resulting from the attacks, according to Agence France-Presse.
