WHO chief Tedros says 12 dead in strike on primary healthcare center in Lebanon

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The head of the World Health Organisation said that it has verified ‌12 doctors, paramedics and nurses were killed in a strike on the ​Bourj Qalaouiyeh primary healthcare centre ​in Lebanon late on Friday.

“The ⁠killings in the last 24 ​hours of 14 health workers in ​southern Lebanon mark a tragic development in the escalating Middle East crisis,” Director-General ​Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in ​a post on X, noting that earlier ‌in ⁠the day two paramedics had been killed in an attack on a health facility in Al ​Sowana.

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