Lebanon’s health ministry says three emergency personnel putting out fires in south Lebanon have been killed and two others wounded in an Israeli strike.
“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 Lebanese health ministry says in a statement.
Two others were wounded, one of them critically, the statement says, adding, however, that the toll was provisional.
There are no immediate comments from the IDF on the strike.
The health ministry “condemns this blatant Israeli attack that targeted a team from an official body of the Lebanese state,” the Lebanese statement says.
Earlier in the day, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group took responsibility for a string of attacks on Israeli troops and positions near the border, including with Katyusha rockets, some in stated response to “Israeli enemy attacks” on south Lebanon.
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