Israel Kills Paramedics, Rescuers in Lebanon Attacks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Five Lebanese paramedics were among six people killed in an Israeli strike on a civil defense center in the country’s southern Nabatieh area, while 12 rescue workers were reported killed in a second attack on a civil defense center near Baalbek city.
In its latest war update, the Israeli regime’s military said it has continued operations in southern Lebanon, where it claims to have struck a Hezbollah command center in the Nabatieh governorate.
The military said the Israeli Air Force struck more than 120 Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon over the past day.
The Lebanon News Agency, citing Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, said a civil defense center has been bombed in the village of Arabsalim in the Nabatieh district, southern Lebanon, killing six people, including four paramedics.
The Shaab neighborhood of the ancient city of Baalbek has been also bombed, killing eight people, including five women, and injuring 27 others.
The Zionist regime has also attacked a civil defense center in the village of Douris, 3km south of Baalbek, killing at least 12 rescue workers.
The village of Temnin el-Foka in Baalbek-Hermel governorate has been bombed, killing three people and injuring four.
Elsewhere in Gaza, the Israeli regime has continued assaults overnight, including on central Deir el-Balah, where Israeli forces have bombed several areas, killing three people, including a child.
The director of the besieged and under-fire Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza has told of starvation-like conditions in the area and people trapped alive beneath bombed buildings with no hope of rescue.
The Israeli military has issued renewed evacuation orders for residents in Beirut’s southern suburb of Ghobeiry, warning an attack will be carried out “in the near future” on several targets.
At least 24 Palestinians have been killed and 112 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,736 Palestinians and wounded 103,370 since October 7, 2023.
In Lebanon, at least 3,386 people have been killed and 14,417 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.