At least twelve people were victims of an Israeli Army attack on a Civil Defense center in the Baalbek province, eastern Lebanon, resulting in the death of twelve people, according to the province's governor, Bachir Khodr.
"The bodies of twelve people have been recovered from the ruins of the Civil Defense center," Khodr stated, adding that there were twenty people inside the building at the time of the Israeli attack.
The deaths in Baalbek raise the total number of fatalities in Lebanon in recent hours to 26 due to Israeli Army attacks, which have claimed the lives of more than 3,400 people in the country over more than a year of conflict with the Shiite group Hezbollah.
Additionally, eight other people lost their lives in an Israeli attack in the Al Shaab neighborhood of Baalbek, including five women, and 29 individuals were injured, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
In another area of the country, in the town of Arab Salim, southern Lebanon, six people died, four of them paramedics, in an Israeli attack on a post of the Islamic Health Organization and Civil Defense, linked to Hezbollah.
The Ministry of Public Health condemned these acts as "crimes by the Israeli enemy against workers and health facilities" and called on the international community to intervene to stop Israeli attacks in the country. According to authorities, Israeli bombings have caused the deaths of at least 192 healthcare workers and damage to 244 medical vehicles, as well as to 88 primary healthcare centers and 40 hospitals.
