BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanon´s health ministry said two paramedics from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee were killed and five others wounded on Sunday in two Israeli strikes on the country´s south despite a ceasefire.
As the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling on a variety of other south Lebanon areas, Israel´s army warned residents of three villages to evacuate, saying it would act forcefully against the Iran-backed group there.
Israel has kept up strikes despite a ceasefire in place since April 17 that was supposed to halt hostilities with Hezbollah, while the militant group has pressed on with its own attacks, mainly on Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon but also across the border.
A Lebanese health ministry statement said that Israel “directly targeted, with two strikes, two Health Committee sites”, killing one paramedic and wounding three others in Qalaway, and killing another paramedic and wounding two others in Tibnin.
The statement decried what it called Israel´s continued “violation of international laws”.
The Israeli military said in a statement that on Sunday its forces had struck “more than 20 terror infrastructure” targets in southern Lebanon, including Hezbollah weapons storage facilities and headquarters.
