By Authorities in Lebanon reported on Saturday that an Israeli airstrike in the country’s south had left three persons dead and two injured.
Three emergency personnel were slain in the attack while attempting to put out a fire in the town of Froun, in the Nabatieh province, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. It said that the attack violated international law and marked the second time in a span of 12 hours that an ambulance team had been targeted.
But according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the hit “eliminated terrorists” from the Amal movement, a Shia organization associated with Hezbollah. Two Amal movement members were slain “while performing their humanitarian and national duty in defense of Lebanon and the South,” according to a statement released by the organization.
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati characterized the strike as “a blatant violation of international laws and a blatant aggression against human values,” and called on Western ambassadors and other international representatives to attend an emergency meeting at his headquarters in Beirut on Monday.
Launching “a squadron of suicide drones” on a recently created IDF headquarters in Ayelet, northern Israel, and a “salvo of Al-Falaq missiles” against the Kiryat Shmona settlement, Hezbollah stated on Saturday that it has retaliated to the attack on Froun. Several UAVs were detected leaving Lebanese territory, according to the IDF, although no casualties had been recorded.
Brigadier General Raymond Khattar, the director of Civil Defense in Lebanon, sent his “deepest condolences” to the impacted families.
Additionally, he wished one of the injured men—Mohammad Amasha, according to the Civil Defense—a “speedy recovery.” The victim was hurt during the raid and was “transferred to Tebnin Governmental Hospital, where he is undergoing surgery,” according to the Civil Defense said.
