At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war Middle East crisis – live updates At least 13 hospitals and other health facilities have been hit during the US-Israel attacks on Iran, global health chiefs have said. The World Health Organization said it was checking reports that four medics had been killed and 25 others injured. At least 1,230 people have been killed in Iran, more than 100 in Lebanon and 13 in Israel since the war began, according to official statements. Thousands more have been injured across the region. Six US troops have also been killed. The death toll includes dozens of schoolchildren killed in a strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, southern Iran on Saturday. The WHO warned that the conflict was jeopardising international humanitarian supply chains, and operations had been suspended at its global emergency logistics hub in Dubai. At a briefing on Thursday , Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of WHO, said it had “verified 13 attacks on health care in Iran and one in Lebanon”. Ghebreyesus did not give further details, or attribute blame, but said: “Under international humanitarian law, healthcare must be protected and not attacked.” Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO’s regional director for the eastern Mediterranean, told the same briefing that four ambulances in Iran had been affected and that hospitals and other health sites suffered minor damage due to strikes nearby, citing Iranian authorities. Hospitals and clinics in Lebanon have been forced to close because of evacuation orders, she said. WHO had previously said a hospital in Tehran, Iran’s capital, was evacuated after explosions nearby. In a letter to Ghebreyesus earlier this week, Iran’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva alleged that 10 facilities had been hit by military strikes. “The impact goes beyond the immediately affected countrie...