Lebanese health officials report 2nd death in Israeli strike near hospital entrance

An Israel Defense Forces strike targeting a motorcycle in southern Lebanon next to a hospital entrance yesterday also killed a security guard, according to Lebanese health officials.

The motorcycle driver, identified by the IDF as a Hezbollah operative who was identified at a rocket launching site in southern Lebanon’s Aynata, adjacent to Bint Jbeil, was previously reported killed in the strike.

The site had recently been used to fire rockets at the Malkia area in northern Israel, according to the military.

Mohammed Suleiman, director of the Salah Ghandour Hospital in Bint Jbeil, says they had initially received one person killed and nine wounded in the strike, most of whom were “civilians who were in front of the hospital, where family members and people accompanying the patients usually gather.”

The Islamic Health Committee, affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group, runs the hospital in the southern town.

The strike also caused minor damage to the hospital, according to an Associated Press photographer.

Hezbollah later launched a barrage of dozens of missiles at the Mount Meron area, Safsufa and Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel in response to the deadly strike. No injuries were reported in the rocket attacks.