TEHRAN –Following ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the Iranian Red Crescent Society has set up a field hospital on the border of Lebanon and Syria.

Since September 23, the Israeli army has been launching an unprecedented, intensive air attack on Lebanon.

Lebanon's Health Ministry says over 2,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, including 127 children and 261 women.

The IRCS has also set up an emergency shelter for injured and displaced Lebanese people affected by the conflict, the IRCS website quoted Pirhossein Kolivand, the head of the IRCS, as saying.

Installed tents are equipped with basic goods and are capable of housing thousands of displaced individuals, he added.

Once the field hospital is equipped with essential tools and medicines, surgeries can be performed there, as well, the official noted.

Dispatched humanitarian aid

Following the tragic events, the head of the IRCS announced the IRCS’ readiness to dispatch humanitarian aid and relief teams to Lebanon to assist the people affected by the recent Israeli attacks in the Dahiya district in Beirut.

Kolivand also conveyed a message to the Regional Director at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies –IFRC, Middle East & North Africa (MENA),  Hossam Elsharkawi, President of the

Lebanese Red Cross, Antoine Zoghbi, and Lebanese Health Minister Firas al-Abid expressed the IRCS's readiness to provide humanitarian assistance to Dahiya, IRCS website reported.

In October, The IRCS sent a consignment of relief items to people affected by Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

The humanitarian aid, including essential items and basic goods, was dispatched on October 4, IRNA quoted Kolivand as saying.

Kolivand along with Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi conducted a visit to Lebanon on Friday to observe the ongoing relief services there.

On September 25, Kolivand along with a team that encompassed 12 specialists and general practitioners, as well as 12 relief workers headed Lebanon, IRNA reported.

“The rescue team including optometrists are dispatched with the coordination of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the health ministry of Lebanon to provide humanitarian aid to those injured,” the IRCS website quoted Kolivand as saying.

The official also announced readiness to transfer injured people to Iran to receive further services if needed.

The former spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has vehemently denounced the pager explosions, describing the tragedy as an act of mass murder perpetrated by the occupying Israeli regime.

“Today’s terrorist attack in Lebanon is a continuation of hybrid operations being conducted by the Zionist regime and their mercenaries, runs counter to all moral and humanitarian principles as well as international laws, particularly the international humanitarian law, and deserves international criminal prosecution, trial, and punishment,” Nasser Kan’ani said in a statement on September 24, Press TV reported.

Kan’ani then called upon the international community to take immediate action against the impunity of criminal Israeli authorities.

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Photo: IRCS head Pirhossein Kolivand