A recurring problem in the ongoing Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon is that attacks are targeting paramedics and hospitals in the region. The IDF maintains that they are in some way secretly supporting Hezbollah, though the evidence doesn’t support that, and as the number of slain medical workers grows, there is also a growing backlash against the strategy.
The IDF bombardment of Hiram Hospital in the southern city of Tyre left at least 25 health care workers wounded. Attacks damaged nurses’ quarters as well as patient facilities in the area.
This was just one of the hospitals in the south that were targeted over the weekend, as officials reported a similar facility destroyed in Nabatieh District. No casualties were reported in that incident, however, as the locals had already been evacuated.
Rescuers inspect a car hit in an Israeli strike in Jiyeh area south of Beirut, Lebanon May 13, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. REUTERS/Ali Hankir
EU officials were expressing unease about how often these Israeli attacks on hospitals or other health care targets keep getting reported, and while there was a broad statement from the EU urging “strict adherence” to the ceasefire that is notionally in place, nations are more and more willing to criticize the policy.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing “deep alarm” about the repeated attacks on health workers, noted the number of violations of the ongoing ceasefire and concluded with an urge to comply with UN Security Council resolution 1701, a resolution that is some 20 years old at this point.
Governments and NGOs have been issuing similar statements for weeks now, but this appears not to be affecting the overall conflict, beyond the IDF not even offering statements to nominally justify individual attacks as often anymore, and such strikes simply happening as part of the general background noise of the ongoing offensive.
