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Lebanon\u2019s health system is itself a casualty of war, under attack by Israel. The UN\u2019s World Health Organisation has verified 23 attacks on health care in the past month, leading to 72 deaths.<\/p>\n
The Lebanese health ministry has recorded \u201c55 enemy attacks on hospitals and 201 on emergency medical technicians\u201d. It says Israeli attacks on healthcare workers, facilities, and institutions are \u201ca flagrant violation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the Geneva Conventions.\u201d<\/p>\n
In recent days we reported from the scene of an Israeli air strike just across the road from Lebanon\u2019s biggest public hospital, Rafik Hariri, in Beirut. A few residential buildings were flattened, and 18 people were killed, four of them children. No warning was given.<\/p>\n
The Israeli Defense Forces told the BBC that they are \u201ctargeting Hezbollah, a terrorist organisation\u201d which, they claim, \u201cexploits ambulances and other medical infrastructure.\u201d They deny targeting medical personnel.<\/p>\n
So far, the more than 30 staff in the burns unit are still getting to work every day. None of them have been displaced, but there is a new normal in Beirut \u2013 traffic jams by day, bombs by night. That\u2019s taking a toll.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it’s very hard to deal with patients having traumas and burns due to war,\u201d says Dr Sleiman. \u201cWe do not have soldiers here; all the victims are civilians. We have ladies, we have girls, we have babies. It’s not their affair, their war. We, as doctors, must stay strong. But we have hearts. We have kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before leaving I asked Ivana\u2019s father if he had anything to say to those responsible for maiming his little girl. He thought for an instant before replying in a measured and weary voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not happy. A soldier for a soldier, not a civilian. These are children, a baby”, he said, referring to Ivana. \u201cI am not happy but what can I do? I don\u2019t want to be a murderer like them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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