The ministry has asked hospitals to go into emergency mode within a few hours and requested that they maintain a 50 percent occupancy rate.
Israel’s Health Ministry has ordered hospitals in the north of the country to prepare for the possibility of receiving thousands of wounded people as tensions with the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah escalate.
According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the ministry has also 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.
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Additionally, the ministry has reportedly asked hospitals to go into emergency mode within a few hours and requested that they maintain a 50 percent occupancy rate.
Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, on October 7, the Lebanese Resistance movement Hezbollah has engaged directly, but relatively in a limited way in the war against the Israeli occupation.
However, following the assassination of the deputy head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut, Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said that “a response is inevitable”.
Nasrallah said in a televised speech on Friday, for the second time in days, that Hezbollah cannot remain silent about a breach of this level, stressing that the lack of response makes all of Lebanon exposed.
He pointed out that Hezbollah fighters have carried out about 670 military operations on the Lebanese border with Israel since October 8, one day after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to make a “fundamental change” to the security situation along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
(PC, Anadolu)
