An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon hit an ambulance station near a hospital, killing two workers. Attacks in the region claimed dozens of other victims.
Two Lebanese rescuers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, the NNA news agency reported on Sunday. The airstrike hit a health service station near a hospital in the city of Bint Jubail.
- An Israeli airstrike in Bint Jubail killed two Lebanese paramedics near a hospital.
- Israeli attacks near the city of Sur left at least nine civilians dead.
- The attacks in Abba and Nabatia caused further casualties and extensive material damage.
At least nine other people were killed in Israeli attacks in the area of the city of Sur.
Deaths in various locations
An attack in the village of Abba also claimed two lives. Dozens of shops, offices and a clinic in the Madínati shopping center were damaged during the intervention of the Israeli army in the city of Nabatiya.
News website L’Orient-Le Jour reported that Hezbollah launched a series of attacks on Israeli targets on Sunday, using drones and rocket salvos. Israeli army bases on Israeli territory and its positions in southern Lebanon, including a base on the occupied Golan Heights, were hit.
Losses on both sides
In the meantime, the Israeli army announced that its soldier – a 22-year-old sergeant from the 890th paratrooper battalion, originally from the city of New Haven in the American state of Connecticut – was killed during the fighting in southern Lebanon. This is the fifth Israeli killed since the start of renewed fighting with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement.
Lebanon’s health ministry said at least 47 people were killed and 112 wounded in Israeli attacks on Saturday. Since the start of the Israeli offensive (March 2), 1,189 people have been killed and 3,427 have been injured.
