BEIRUT: Lebanon's health ministry said three emergency personnel were killed and two wounded in an Israeli attack Saturday (Sep 7) on a civil defence team that had been fighting fires in the country's south.
A woman weeps over the grave of her fiancé, a Hezbollah fighter who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, at the al-Hawra Zeinab cemetery in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Sep 7, 2024. BEIRUT: Lebanon's health ministry said three emergency personnel were killed and two wounded in an Israeli attack Saturday on a civil defence team that had been fighting fires in the country's south.
Lebanon's civil defence said in a statement that three of its employees were killed in"an Israeli strike that targeted a firefighting vehicle after they had finished a firefighting mission". Hezbollah ally the Amal movement said two of its members were among the dead. It said they were killed"while carrying out their humanitarian and national duty defending Lebanon and the south".
The Israeli military said it identified"projectiles" crossing from Lebanon, intercepting some of them, and also said"a number of UAVs were identified crossing from Lebanese territory".
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