An ambulance was targeted on Sunday in Bint Jbeil by an Israeli strike, resulting in two deaths. (credit: Photo provided by our correspondent, Mountasser Abdallah)
An Israeli strike on an ambulance belonging to a Hezbollah-affiliated rescue service killed two people in southern Lebanon on Sunday, a paramedic and the wounded person he was trying to save, the organization told AFP.
"A paramedic and the wounded person" from a previous bombardment, whom he had gone to rescue, "were killed during an Israeli raid on an ambulance in Bint Jbeil," Mahmoud Karaki, a spokesperson for Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Committee, told AFP.
Our regional correspondent had reported the strike earlier in the morning, saying that it had killed two paramedics and hit an area near the hospital in the border town of Bint Jbeil.
A photo sent to AFP by Mr. Karaki shows an ambulance completely destroyed and engulfed in flames.
On Saturday, nine paramedics were killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, bringing the total number of paramedics and health workers killed since the beginning of the war to 51, according to the Health Ministry.
On Sunday, Israel again accused Hezbollah of using ambulances and facilities for military purposes, threatening the pro-Iranian Shiite militia party with targeting its medical facilities and ambulances.
"Hezbollah uses ambulances on a large scale for military purposes. We reiterate our warning that the military use of these facilities must stop immediately, and emphasize that if this practice does not stop, Israel will act, in accordance with international law, against any military activity carried out by the terrorist group Hezbollah using these facilities and ambulances," the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X.
