FEARS ARE MOUNTING that Beirut’s medical facilities may collapse as it deals with the huge numbers of civilians injured in this week’s Israeli bombing campaign. Hospitals in the city had already been struggling to cope in the wake of the pager attacks last week.
“The health infrastructure is the big concern for the moment. If if it continues with this intensity,” Colin Lee, an experienced NGO worker in Lebanon who is now Director of Programme Operations at Goal Global, said in an interview with The Journal.
“There’s no bed space, they don’t have the stockpiles of blood or anything really in place.”
Report from the Lebanese capital yesterday showed that thousands of civilians were flooding from Hezbollah strongholds like south Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley towards Beirut to safety.
It came as intensive Israeli bombing happened across those areas.
Despite the raids Hezbollah is continuing to launch rockets into Israel with Galilee …