WHO warns of possible disease outbreaks in Lebanon as hospitals shut

A World Health Organisation official warned on Tuesday of disease outbreaks in Lebanon due to crowded conditions in displacement shelters and hospital closures as medics have fled Israel's assault.

"We are facing a situation where there is a much higher risk of disease outbreaks, such as acute watery diarrhoea, hepatitis A, and a number of vaccine preventable diseases," the WHO's Ian Clarke, deputy incident manager for Lebanon, told a Geneva press briefing by video link from Beirut.

Reporting by Reuters