BEIRUT - Lebanese authorities have said 13 people, including one child, were killed in an Israeli strike on Monday near Lebanon’s biggest public hospital in Beirut.
Some 57 people were also wounded in the attack on the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the Lebanese health ministry said, with 17 taken to hospital. Seven people were said to be in a critical condition.
It raised the death toll to 13 from an earlier toll of four.
The ministry added that the strike targeted one of the hospital’s entrances, and that it condemned Israel’s actions as “war crimes that disregard all humanitarian and international laws”. Lebanese media published photographs of hospital windows blown out by the blast.
The Rafic Hariri Hospital is located in Beirut’s southern suburbs, just north of the Hezbollah-dominated Dahieh neighbourhood.
Israel warned people to move away from several areas of Beirut ahead of the strike, but the Rafik Hariri Hospital was not among the locations mentioned.
The Israeli military said that the hospital was not the target of its strike, and that the facility remained operational.
