BEIRUT: Three paramedics associated with Hezbollah were killed in an Israeli strike on south of Lebanon on Monday, the group said.
The Lebanese group also announced a retaliatory fire, amid increasing cross-border hostilities during the Israel-Hamas war.
Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement have been exchanging fire on daily basis since the day after the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7, raising fears all-out conflict could engulf the entire region.
The Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee said its three members killed because of a direct Israeli attack on an emergency centre in south Lebanon’s Adaysseh.
The group later said its fighters targeted Gesher Haziv near northern Israel’s coastal city of Nahariya with rockets in retaliation, while the Israeli military reported that number of launches were intercepted.
The killing came hours after Israeli medics said a missile strike on northern Israel killed a foreign worker and injured seven others.
Hezbollah claimed several attacks on Israeli military positions on Monday, while the Israeli military said it hit Hezbollah targets including military compounds and control centre in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese health ministry condemns Israeli strikes
Lebanon’s health ministry has strongly condemned the Israeli deadly raid in Adaysseh and termed the attacks on medical personnel unacceptable.
Two Islamic Health Committee paramedics and a Hezbollah fighter were killed in an Israeli strike Last month, on one of the organisation’s centres in south Lebanon’s Blida.
The Israeli army said it had targeted a Hezbollah military compound in the village.
In January, Hezbollah said an Israeli attack killed two Islamic Health Committee personnel in the town of Hanin.
The fighting has so far killed at least 299 people in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah members but also including 49 civilians. At least 10 soldiers and seven civilians have also been killed In Israel.
