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Lebanon Red Cross says 3 paramedics wounded in Israeli attack on country’s south
Three paramedics have been wounded in an Israeli attack while on a rescue mission coordinated with UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross says.
Four ambulance teams were dispatched to the southern city of Nabatieh in coordination with UNIFIL after an attack there, the Lebanese Red Cross said, adding: “The site was bombed again and three … volunteers were injured and are being transported to hospital.”
Latest casualty figures from Israeli attacks on Lebanon
These are the latest casualty figures issued by the Lebanese Health Ministry:
- At least 1,952 people have been killed since Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon in mid-September.
- At least 2,546 people in Lebanon have been killed, including at least 140 children and 270 women, and 11,862 wounded since the start of Israeli-Hezbollah cross-border attacks in October last year.
- The ministry’s figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Israeli army claims killing of Hezbollah’s Safieddine
The Israeli army is saying it killed Hashem Safieddine, who was touted to take over as the next Hezbollah chief, in an air strike earlier this month.
Earlier this month, a Lebanese security source told Al Jazeera that Hezbollah has lost contact with Safieddine, who was seen as a possible successor to slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, after an Israeli air strike on Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighbourhood. As the chairman of the armed group’s Executive Council, Safieddine is a very high-ranking member of the organisation and also Nasrallah’s cousin.
In a post on X, Israeli army said that it killed Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine as well as “Hossein Ali Al-Zima, head of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters, killed in an attack in Dahiyah in Beirut, along with other commanders in Hezbollah”.
There has been no comment from Hezbollah yet on the Israeli army claims.
