Iran sends 3 tonnes of emergency medical supplies to Lebanon
The Red Crescent Society of Iran announced a fourth aid consignment containing three tonnes of medical supplies arrived in Lebanon.
Babak Mahmoudi, an official with the organisation, told state media the aid delivery includes emergency medicine, including for children.
He also confirmed a previous announcement that the Red Crescent aims to establish a new field hospital on Lebanon’s border with Syria following the Israeli military’s bombing of its hospital there a week ago. The new hospital will be built some 40km (24 miles) from the facility targeted by Israel.
Mahmoudi also said at least 11 Iranian Red Crescent aid workers would be deployed to Lebanon in the coming days.
Iran’s parliament speaker and former air force commander, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who piloted a plane to Beirut on Saturday and visited the site of the latest Israeli air attack on the city, said Tehran is prepared to send more supplies if the Lebanese government can secure an air corridor over the capital.
An Israeli airstrike targeted Iran's 56-bed field hospital on the Syrian-Lebanese border, which had been set up to provide aid to displaced Lebanese people. The facility, marked clearly with Red Crescent flags and symbols, housed food supplies, medical equipment, and medicines. pic.twitter.com/bGPVUwBscJ
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Israel’s army says it struck 240 targets in Lebanon and Gaza
A military statement says Israeli forces continued to attack Hezbollah targets over the past day. The sites included rocket launchers, antitank positions, weapon depots, and other infrastructure, according to the statement.
They also continued to operate in Gaza, where some 40 targets were attacked, weapons were destroyed, and dozens of fighters were killed in the last 24 hours.
Israeli strike wounds 4 Lebanese Red Cross paramedics
Four paramedics with the Lebanese Red Cross have just been injured in southern Lebanon as a result of an Israeli air strike, the organisation said in a statement.
The emergency responders were on a rescue mission to a house in the town of Sarbin that was bombed by the Israeli military this morning and coordinated with UN peacekeepers to search for casualties.
But just as ambulances arrived, a second Israeli air strike hit the area, wounding the paramedics, who were taken to hospital but are not in life-threatening condition. “As the team was searching for casualties to rescue, the house was hit for a second time resulting in concussions to the volunteers and damage to the two ambulances,” it said.
Israel has been steadily ramping up its attacks on medics and civil defence crews in Lebanon, openly threatening to hit ambulances based on the claim they may carry Hezbollah fighters or weapons.
Lebanese Red Cross teams on search and rescue operation in Nabatieh governorate
Hezbollah claims new attack on Israeli army post in Shebaa Farms
The Lebanese group says it carried out an attack on the Zabadin barracks in the Israeli-occupied territory.
A statement on Telegram said the rocket attack took place at 5:30am local time (02:30 GMT).
Hezbollah has intensified its attacks on Israeli troops during their ongoing incursion into southern Lebanon, with helicopters ferrying the wounded to a hospital in northern Israel on Sunday.
The group’s fighters “targeted at 10:10am [07:10 GMT] … a gathering of Israeli enemy forces in the village of Maroun al-Ras with artillery shells”, Hezbollah said in a statement.
