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WHO warns Lebanon's health system overwhelmed by escalating Israeli airstrikes
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The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has warned that Lebanon's healthcare system is struggling to cope with the influx of injured patients following Israel's intensified airstrikes and ground raids into the country.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israel i airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburb on October 3, 2024. The Israel i military issued orders in the early hours of October 3, telling people to leave multiple areas of densely-populated southern Beirut, where it says it will hit Hezbollah sites.

Israel shifted its focus last month from the war in Gaza, which was sparked by the October 7 attacks by Iran-backed Hamas, to securing its northern border with Lebanon.

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