Published September 07,2024
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Lebanon‘s well being ministry mentioned three emergency personnel had been killed and two wounded in an Israeli assault Saturday on a civil defence workforce that had been combating fires within the nation’s south.
“Israeli enemy targeting of a Lebanese civil defence team that was putting out fires sparked by the recent Israeli strikes in the village of Froun led to the martyrdom of three emergency responders,” the well being ministry mentioned in a press release.
Two others had been wounded, one among them critically, the assertion mentioned, including that the toll was provisional.
Lebanon’s civil defence mentioned in a press release that three of its workers had been killed in “an Israeli strike that targeted a firefighting vehicle after they had finished a firefighting mission”.
The well being ministry condemned “this blatant Israeli attack that targeted a team from an official body of the Lebanese state”, its assertion mentioned.
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group has exchanged close to each day cross-border fireplace with Israeli forces in help of ally Hamas for the reason that Palestinian resistance group’s October 7 assault on Israel triggered struggle within the Gaza Strip.
The violence has killed not less than 614 individuals in Lebanon, principally fighters but in addition together with not less than 138 civilians, 24 of them emergency personnel, in line with an AFP tally.
On the Israeli aspect, together with within the annexed Golan Heights, authorities have introduced the deaths of not less than 24 troopers and 26 civilians.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati in a press release blasted Saturday’s assault, saying “this new aggression against Lebanon is a blatant violation of international laws… and human values”.
The well being ministry mentioned the assault was “the second of its kind against an emergency team in less than 12 hours”.
Hezbollah introduced a string of assaults on Israeli troops and positions close to the border on Saturday, together with with Katyusha rockets and “explosives-laden drones”, some in said response to “Israeli enemy attacks” on south Lebanon.
Lebanon’s National News Agency mentioned Israel carried out air strikes and shelling on a number of areas of the nation’s south.
The Israeli army mentioned it recognized “projectiles” crossing from Lebanon, intercepting a few of them, and in addition mentioned “a number of UAVs (drones) were identified crossing from Lebanese territory”.
It mentioned the air pressure struck “Hezbollah military infrastructure and a launcher” within the Qabrikha space, whereas its artillery struck a number of different areas of south Lebanon.
Source: www.anews.com.tr