Emergency personnel and residents gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment building in the southern Lebanese town of Haret Saida, on the outskirts of Sidon, on March 14, 2026. AFP
An overnight Israeli strike killed a dozen medical staff at a clinic in south Lebanon, health authorities said earlier Saturday.
An AFP correspondent in northeast Beirut (not one of Hezbollah's strongholds in the Lebanese capital) saw rescue workers at the scene and damage, including a hole in a building.
The state-run National News Agency said, "an Israeli strike targeted the Nabaa-Burj Hammoud area for a second day."
The same building had been struck on Friday without causing casualties.
Burj Hammoud is a densely populated, mixed area known for its large Armenian-Lebanese community.
Levon Ghazalian, 42, who lives in the building next door, said, "It's the first time this has happened" in the area, which was spared in the previous conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2024.
"All the neighbours are afraid," he told AFP, staring at the scene with his daughter.
Hanadi Hachem, 50, who was in her pyjamas, said, "There's no safety anymore... You never know where a strike will come from."
She said she and some family members were sleeping in their car out of fear.
In the suburbs of the southern coastal city of Sidon, state media reported a strike targeted an apartment in the Haret Saida area.
An AFP correspondent there said the strike hit a residential building in the densely populated area, causing a fire, with rescue workers attending the scene.
Health authorities said an overnight Israeli strike killed 12 doctors, paramedics, and nurses working at a healthcare centre in the town of Burj Qalawiya.
On a visit to Lebanon that began on Friday, UN chief Antonio Guterres called on to "stop the war" and launched a $325 million humanitarian appeal to support Lebanon, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced.
The NNA also reported on Friday that Israeli shells hit a United Nations base hosting Nepali peacekeepers in the southern border town of Mais al-Jabal.
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