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Three Lebanese civil defense members killed in Israeli attack

Saturday, 07 September 2024 6:04 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 07 September 2024 6:32 PM ]

Smoke rises in the southern Lebanese Marjayoun plain after being hit by Israeli shelling on September 7, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health says three emergency personnel have been killed when the Israeli military attacked a civil defense team as they were putting out fires in southern Lebanon.

“Israeli enemy targeting of a Lebanese civil defense 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 health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Two others were wounded, one of them critically, the statement added.

The health ministry “condemns this blatant Israeli attack that targeted a team from an official body of the Lebanese state”, the statement noted.

Hezbollah targets Israeli military command center with Katyusha rockets

Hezbollah has launched barrages of Katyusha rockets at an Israeli military command center in the north in retaliation for assaults on southern Lebanese regions.

The Israeli regime has repeatedly attacked southern Lebanon since October 7 last year, when it launched a genocidal war on Gaza that has killed at least 40,939 Palestinians, most of them women and children, so far. Another 94,616 individuals have also been injured in the onslaught.

In retaliation, Hezbollah has launched near-daily rocket attacks on Israeli positions.

Some 610 people have been killed on the Lebanese border, including at least 135 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

Israel says at least 24 soldiers and 26 settlers have been killed in the area.

The fighting has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands from the northern part of the occupied territories, amid rocket fire and shelling carried out by Hezbollah and allied Palestinian groups.

Hezbollah has already fought off two Israeli wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. The resistance forced the regime to retreat in both conflicts.

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