Geneva, SANA-The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 73 employees in the Lebanese health sector were killed in the Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

The organization said in a post on its page on the X platform that Lebanon is facing a health crisis in light of the Israeli attacks that led to the death of 1,974 people, the injury of 9,384 others, and the displacement of 346,209. 

WHO added that Israeli forces launched 34 attacks on health care facilities, claiming the lives of 73 health workers and the injury of 67 others.

Only yesterday, the Civil Defense Operations Room of the Islamic Health Authority in Lebanon announced the martyrdom of 11 of its paramedics as a result of the Israeli bombing of ambulance crews in the town of Marjayoun.

Mazen Eyon