Beirut, November 23 (RHC)-- Lebanon’s Health Ministry has accused Israel of carrying out a “series of war crimes” in its targeted killing of medical staff and destruction of health facilities after Israeli air strikes killed a hospital director in the northeast of the country and five paramedics were slain in the south.

In related news, the head of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an “immediate end” to fighting at Gaza’s besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital after an Israeli drone attacked the facility and wounded four medical staff and two patients.

At the Geneva-based headquarters of the WHO, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repeated his urgent plea for an end to the genocidal aggression being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people.