BEIRUT, (PIC)
Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon from late Thursday into Friday killed at least 11 people, including paramedics, rescuers, and a child, and wounded several others, according to Lebanese sources.
Before dawn Friday, four paramedics were killed and two others were injured in two strikes on emergency centers in the town of Hannawiyah in the Tyre district, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
Later that day, an airstrike near the villages of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr and Abbasiya in the Tyre district killed six people, including two paramedics who were evacuating casualties from an earlier strike. The martyrs also included a Lebanese citizen and three Syrians, one of them a child.
In the city of Nabatieh, a drone strike targeting a pickup truck killed one and wounded two others, according to local reports.
Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike near a government hospital in the town of Tebnine caused severe damage to the facility and wounded nine people, including seven hospital staff members, five of them women.
Israeli airstrikes also targeted, on the same day, multiple towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
For its part, Hezbollah responded with a series of operations, saying they were carried out “in retaliation for Israeli ceasefire violations and attacks on southern villages and towns.”
The group said it targeted nine gatherings of soldiers, six military sites, and three armored vehicles. Hezbollah also announced that it had fired a surface-to-air missile at an Israeli drone flying over the Beqaa region in eastern Lebanon.
