Northern Israel Hospitals Move Operations Underground Amid Rocket Threat

Northern Israel's hospitals are relocating their operations to safer, fortified facilities due to ongoing rocket and missile threats. Rambam Hospital in Haifa will be moving patients to an underground secure area.

Hospitals in northern Israel have been instructed to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire, the health ministry said on Sunday.

Rambam Hospital in the city of Haifa is among the medical centers taking precautionary measures, relocating patients to its underground, secure facility, according to the ministry.

This move comes as a response to escalating security concerns in the region.

(With inputs from agencies.)