Lebanon’s Health Ministry strongly condemned threats made against hospitals in the south, describing them as a “serious attack and a blatant violation of international laws and conventions,” particularly international humanitarian law, which guarantees full protection for hospitals, health facilities and medical teams at all times.

The ministry stressed that hospitals are “purely humanitarian institutions” that provide care to the wounded and the sick without discrimination, adding that any targeting or threat against them endangers the lives of patients and medical staff and constitutes a grave crime that cannot be justified under any pretext.