WHO chief Tedros says 12 dead in strike on primary healthcare center in Lebanon

The head of the World ​Health Organization said on Saturday ‌that it has verified ​12 doctors, paramedics ⁠and nurses were killed in a strike on ‌the Bourj Qalaouiyeh primary healthcare center in ‌Lebanon late on ‌Friday (March 13, 2026).

“The ⁠killings in the ⁠last 24 hours of 14 health workers in southern Lebanon ​mark a ‌tragic development in the escalating Middle East crisis,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom ‌Ghebreyesus said in a post ​on X, noting that earlier in ⁠the day two paramedics had been killed in ‌an attack on a health facility in Al Sowana.

Israel has launched an extensive bombing campaign against the powerful ‌Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, ​which has killed more than 770 people and ⁠displaced hundreds of thousands ⁠more, while Hezbollah has fired hundreds of ‌rockets across the border.