IDF acknowledges it inadvertently damaged a hospital in Lebanon strike yesterday

The Israeli military acknowledges that a strike it carried out yesterday against Hezbollah in the southern coastal Lebanese city of Tyre also damaged a hospital.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported a strike targeting an intersection near the Jabal Amel hospital “hit a building and the parking lot, resulting in several wounded.”

In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the IDF says that it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Tyre.

“An initial examination indicates that as a result of the strike, damage was caused to a hospital in the area. It should be emphasized that the hospital was not targeted and was apparently affected incidentally as a result of the strikes,” the military says.

The IDF accuses Hezbollah of “systematically positioning itself among civilian infrastructure and population centers, and placing its infrastructure near medical institutions, thereby endangering the lives of patients, medical staff, and civilians in the area, in violation of international law.”

“The IDF emphasizes that it operates only against the Hezbollah terror organization and acts as much as possible to minimize harm to civilian infrastructure, medical institutions, and medical personnel,” the military adds.