Hospitals in Israel move underground to keep working amid rockets from Lebanon

Hospital employees walk underground in a hallway at Galilee Medical Center, a community hospital in Nahariya, in northern Israel. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

NAHARIYA, Israel — When you visit the Galilee Medical Center in northern Israel, you can hardly tell you're underground. There are nursing stations, hospital beds and a separate neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU.

There are familiar hospital scenes: a father caressing the feet of his newborn, family members crowded around the bed of an ailing loved one, and a nurse drawing blood.