NBC News: Beirut Hospitals Fill With Children Wounded in Israeli Strikes
March 14, 2026
THE YOUNGEST VICTIMS.
Hospital corridors in Beirut are filling with children, small bodies, big wounds after the latest Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
These are not soldiers.
Not fighters.
Just children caught in a war they never chose.
Every explosion.
Every strike.
The youngest victims are the ones paying the highest price.
Courtesy of @nbcnews
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English Script:
Reporter: In this central Beirut hospital, a grandmother’s grief echoes through the war. Forgive me, she says. I didn’t want to cry in front of you. Amina is consoling her granddaughter and mourning her own daughter, who was killed in the first few hours of the war, shielding four year old Malika, who suffered shrapnel wounds to her face. And then there is an 11 year old girl, one of three sisters severely injured. She’s just come out of surgery. The doctor operating on all these patients, Doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta. He is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who made headlines around the world for his work in Gaza in the months after October 7th. He then started a foundation solely focused on the children.
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta: If these things become normal to you, then you’ve lost something very important. You need to be continuously outraged. In the first week of the war, an average of ten children a day were killed in Lebanon, according to government officials as Israel targets Hezbollah, a paramilitary group funded and backed by Iran. You need to be outraged when a child tells you that she was sitting on her mum’s lap when her mum was killed. That moral outrage is what keeps us human and what differentiates us from those who do the killing.
