Israeli forces demolish care home for the elderly in southern Lebanon’s Marjayoun

<p> LONDON: The Israeli army demolished a care home for the elderly in southern Lebanon on Saturday and carried out additional strikes and demolitions across the border region, Lebanese media reported.</p> <p> The social care home was in the town of Houla in the Marjayoun district, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. Israeli forces also destroyed buildings in an area between the towns of Markaba and Rab El-Thalathine, also in Marjayoun.</p> <p> Elsewhere in southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone struck an open area between Jarmaq and Kfar Remman in the Nabatieh district. Israeli artillery also targeted the outskirts of Zawtar Al-Gharbiyeh and shelled an area between Haddatha and Haris.</p> <p> The reported operations come amid continuing Israeli military activity in Lebanon and a series of reported incidents affecting the country’s health care system this year.</p> <p> The World Health Organization’s surveillance system documented 208 attacks affecting healthcare in Lebanon between March 2 and mid-June.</p> <p> Among the reported incidents, a drone strike occurred near a hospital in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa in July, the NNA said. In June, an incident near Bint Jbeil Hospital injured 11 people, including a doctor and five hospital staff members, and damaged the hospital.</p> <p> Earlier, on March 14, a strike on a health care center in Burj Qalaouiyah, in the Bint Jbeil district, killed 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty. A separate strike on a paramedic center in Souaneh killed two paramedics and wounded five others. </p>