Three Lebanese medics killed by Israeli strike; Hezbollah retaliates
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Smoke rising on the southern Lebanese Marjayoun plain, after being hit by Israeli shelling on Sept 7.
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CAIRO - Three Lebanese paramedics were killed and two others wounded, one critically, in an Israeli attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Faroun, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Sept 7.
“Israeli forces targeted a team from the Lebanese Civil Defence as they responded to fires sparked by recent Israeli airstrikes,” a ministry statement said, specifying that the strike hit a fire truck.
It condemned the attack as a “blatant strike” on an official Lebanese state apparatus, marking the second such attack on an emergency team in less than 12 hours.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
Hezbollah issued a statement late on Sept 7, saying they launched a “squadron of missiles” in response to the attack, targeting the headquarters of Israel’s 91st Division, which is responsible for its northern border, “hitting offices and soldiers with precision”.
The intensity of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has ratcheted up steadily, displacing tens of thousands of people on either side of the Lebanese-Israeli frontier.
The conflict erupted after Hamas launched an attack on Israeli territory
