WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s health ministry ordered hospitals in the northern parts of the occupied territories to prepare for the possibility of receiving thousands of injured people as tensions with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement increase, a report says.
According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the ministry has asked medical centers in the north to prepare for the possibility of going into “deserted island mode”, that is being left without medical supplies, medicine and food for days.
The ministry also asked hospitals to go into emergency mode within a few hours and requested that they maintain a 50% occupancy rate.
Tensions have flared along the Lebanon’s border amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Zionist troops and Hezbollah in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.
At least 158 Hezbollah members have been martyred in clashes with Zionist troops near Lebanon’s border since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on October 7, according to figures released by the resistance movement.
The tension comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip on October 7.
The occupying regime has pounded Gaza since then, killing at least 23,210 Palestinians and injuring 59,167 others, according to local health authorities.
About 85% of Gazans have been displaced, while all of them are food insecure, according to the UN. Hundreds of thousands of people are living without shelter and less than half the aid trucks are entering the territory than before the start of the conflict.