Death toll in Lebanon rises to 570, including women, children, and paramedics

Israeli strikes have killed 570 people in Lebanon since the Middle East war spread to the country on March 2, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

The ministry provided a demographic breakdown of those killed, reporting that 439 of them were men, 45 women, and 86 children.

The toll includes 14 healthcare workers, the ministry said.

The Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee said on Tuesday that 15 of its rescuers had been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war.

In a statement, the medics said their crews were subjected to "a series of direct attacks since the beginning of the aggression, which led to the martyrdom of 15 people and the wounding of more than 30 among the paramedics who were performing their humanitarian duty of rescuing the wounded and providing relief to civilians".

Nearly 760,000 people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of the war.

In an updated figure, the government's disaster management unit said the total number of people who registered their names on a website affiliated with the social affairs ministry reached 759,300, including 122,600 people staying in government shelters.