BEIRUT: An Israeli airstrike Saturday evening targeted a firefighting truck in the village of Froun in southern Lebanon, killing three Lebanese Civil Defense personnel and injuring two others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

It announced that the initial death toll of the Israeli airstrike that targeted a Lebanese Civil Defense team as the latter was engaged in putting out fires started by Israeli airstrikes in the village was three paramedics and two casualties, including a critically injured.

It condemned this flagrant Israeli assault that targeted the team of one of apparatuses of the Lebanese State, noting that this assault was the second of its kind against an ambulance team in less than 12 hours.

It stressed that the Israel occupation’s persistence with committing such assaults only affirms the occupation’s savagery and aggressive intentions that leaves no space for conducting humanitarian missions that are usually allowed in the toughest wars.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agen
cy – WAFA