CAIRO (Reuters) – An Israeli assault whereas preventing a hearth within the southern city of Faroun killed three Lebanese paramedics and wounded two others, one critically, the Lebanese Well being Ministry mentioned on Saturday.
“Israeli forces focused a Lebanese Civil Protection unit whereas responding to fires brought on by current Israeli air strikes,” a Protection Ministry assertion mentioned, noting that the assault hit a hearth truck.
It condemned the assault as a “blatant assault” on Lebanese official state establishments, the second such assault on emergency response groups in lower than 12 hours.
The Israeli army mentioned it was investigating the report.
It earlier mentioned it had carried out a number of assaults on rocket launchers and infrastructure at a number of areas in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel.
Hezbollah issued a press release saying that in response to the Faroon assault, Hezbollah launched a “squadron of missiles” focusing on the Israeli army headquarters, inflicting casualties.
Preventing between Hezbollah and Israel has intensified, displacing tens of 1000’s of individuals on each side of the Lebanese-Israeli border.
