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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
William Christou in Beirut

Lebanese healthcare workers fearful as growing numbers killed in strikes

Lebanese ambulances
Lebanese ambulances and firefighters at the scene of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment building in south Beirut’s Jnah neighbourhood on 1 October. Photograph: Ibrahim Amro/AFP/Getty Images

The airstrikes started just before noon. The injured and the dead quickly followed. As the ground in the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun began to shake from the relentless approach of Israeli bombs, Shoshan Mazraani let her muscle memory take over.

As the emergency room director of its public hospital, she was well versed in the grim logistics of the triage procedures that follow a bombing. Then after five hours of gruelling work, the din of the emergency room was interrupted by a long whistle.

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