Hospital bombed as Israeli air strike cuts off highway linking Lebanon and Syria

A day earlier, the World Health Organization said 28 health workers in Lebanon had been killed in the past 24 hours

A man runs for cover as a smoke raises in the background following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut (Hassan Ammar/AP)

A hospital in southern Lebanon said it had been shelled by Israeli forces on Friday after being warned to evacuate.

The statement from Salah Ghandour Hospital in the town of Bint Jbeil said the shelling “resulted in nine members of the medical and nursing staff being injured, most of them seriously,” while most of the medical staff were evacuated.