Live Updates: Israel attacks Lebanon and Gaza, Iran responds to attacks, Hezbollah's Safieddine killed

Israeli attacks in Lebanon impacted more than two dozen hospitals, with five hospitals out of service and 22 partially damaged, Youssef Bakhash, head of the Lebanese Doctors Syndicate, told Al Jazeera.

About 150 health care workers were killed, including four doctors “who were carrying out their humanitarian and medical duties,” Bakhash said on Tuesday. More than 100 primary care centers were forced to close due to the strikes and 150 ambulances were destroyed, the doctor added.

Although there have been repeated attacks on medical facilities and health workers in the country over the past year, Bakhash said, they have escalated since September, when fighting between Hezbollah and Israel escalated.

More context: An Israeli attack near Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut on Monday killed at least 18 people, injured dozens more and caused significant damage to the hospital, authorities said. The Israeli military said it hit a “Hezbollah terrorist target,” without giving further details.

The public hospital, considered the largest in Lebanon, was not in an area subject to evacuation orders issued by the military, a CNN analysis found.

In an interview with CNN on Monday, an official at another hospital in central Beirut vehemently rejected as “baseless” the Israeli military's accusations that there was a Hezbollah bunker underneath.

The Israeli military had said that the alleged bunker beneath the Sahel General Hospital contains “millions of dollars in gold and cash” and “serves as a central financial facility for Hezbollah.” It showed computer-generated graphics and illustrations of the bunker that CNN could not verify.

Fadi Fakhry Alame, one of the directors of the Sahel General Hospital, said the Israeli military made similar claims in Gaza before targeting hospitals. “Now they’re doing it in Lebanon,” he said.