(22 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 22 October 2024
1. Patients on hospital beds
2. Pull-out from broken window to patients
3. Wounded man walking in hospital corridor
4. Patients on hospital beds
5. Various of broken windows
6. News conference
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Jihad Saadeh, head of the Rafik Hariri University hospital:
"Because of the targeting that has happened, we have sustained severe material damage to the hospital, including the destruction of solar panels, extensive destruction of all glass facades and damage to the hospital walls. Severe damage because it seems the shrapnel was very large."
8. Cameras at news conference
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Jihad Saadeh, head of the Rafik Hariri University hospital:
"We will not stop. Several entities even called me yesterday asking if I would like to evacuate the hospital. I told them, not at all. We will not evacuate. There is no hospital left but us. After the sinful targeting of the suburb’s hospitals, there is no one left except for us. So we will continue our work, God willing, and we will not stop."
10. Exterior of hospital
STORYLINE:
An Associated Press team touring the Rafik Hariri University hospital on Tuesday saw broken windows in the hospital following Israeli strikes nearby.
Israeli airstrikes in and around Beirut caused significant damage to the hospital and killed more than a dozen people, Lebanese health officials said.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that 57 others were wounded in airstrikes late Monday that destroyed several buildings facing the hospital.
The ministry also said the airstrikes significantly damaged Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the country’s largest public hospital, located on the outskirts of southern Beirut.
The AP team saw broken windows in the hospital’s pharmacy and dialysis center, which was full of patients at the time.
The force of the explosions broke some of the hospital’s solar panels, said Jihad Saadeh, the head of the hospital.
Saadeh said in a news conference that he does not intend to evacuate the hospital.
"We will not evacuate. There is no hospital left but us. After the sinful targeting of the suburb’s hospitals, there is no one left except for us," he said.
The Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah target, without elaborating, and that it had not targeted the hospital itself.
AP video shot by Fadi Tawil
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