
Doctors Without Borders said on Friday that the Israeli attacks are still almost daily on southern Lebanon, stressing that “this situation deprives thousands of returning to their homes.”
The organization stated that the Israeli forces are continuing to occupy several areas along the southern border, which considered that it prevents residents from returning to their homes and leaves more than 82,000 displaced people.
She explained that access to health care in light of these situations remains “very limited”, as “Doctors Without Borders” launched new activities in the most affected areas in response to the worsening needs, through mobile clinics and the rehabilitation of health centers while continuing their services in the rest of the country.
The organization recorded that the Israeli bombing destroyed the infrastructure in southern Lebanon, including health facilities, and explained that at the height of the escalation, 8 hospitals were forced to evacuate their patients in a way, and 21 other hospitals were damaged, which represents about 13% of the total hospitals in Lebanon and these hospitals were forced to reduce their services or closure.
The organization continued, indicating the accuracy of the situation in Lebanon, highlighting that 133 primary health care clinics closed, which deprived thousands of people of basic medical services.
Doctors Without Borders added that Nabatieh Governorate alone lost 40% of its hospital capacity, and many of these facilities are still closed and need to be rehabilitated to this day.
The organization says that it intensified its activities in the governorates of Nabatiyeh, the south and Baalbek/Hermel, with its continued services in Beirut, Bekaa and the North, and launched doctors without borders mobile clinics that provide medical and psychological services, and work to rehabilitate 3 primary health care centers to secure basic services in the south.
She pointed out that the crisis also affects refugees and migrants in Lebanon, where more than a million Syrians and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live, and others of different nationalities in extremely fragile conditions, and confirmed that it was greatly excluded from the humanitarian response after the recent Israeli escalation, and today faces urgent needs in health, housing and food.
By the end of 2025, the organization expected the United Nations Commission for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration to stop secondary health care, at a time when the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian and UNICEFs is facing unprecedented discounts in financing.
The organization considered that these gaps in the humanitarian response would leave enormous needs without an answer, create new fashions, and worsen the existing. (Al -Jazeera Net)
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