Israeli attack on civil defense team in blatant violation of intl. law: Lebanon PM

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has condemned the Israeli attack on a civil defense team as they were putting out fires on the southern side of the Arab country, describing the deadly assault as a blatant violation of international law and human values.

Mikati stated that the latest Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon’s southern village of Froun in the Bint Jbeil district is not surprising as the occupying regime has been committing successive crimes in different areas of Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Citing Israel’s non-adherence to international rules and regulations, the Lebanese premier urged Western ambassadors and representatives of international organizations to participate in an extraordinary meeting that will be held in Beirut on Monday to address the ongoing hostilities.

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Rashid Bou Habib also stated that Israel has conveyed a message through mediators that even if a ceasefire agreement is reached in Gaza, it will not cease its strikes on Lebanon.

Three Lebanese civil defense members killed in Israeli attack

Lebanon’s health ministry says three emergency personnel have been killed and two others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a civil defense team putting out fires in southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement said it had bombarded the illegal Israeli settlement of “Kiryat Shmona with a volley of Falaq rockets” early on Sunday “in response to the enemy attacks... and particularly the attack” that killed the emergency workers in the Lebanese village of Froun.

Hezbollah also announced in a separate statement that its fighters had fired rockets at the Israeli community of Shamir, near Kiryat Shmona.

On Saturday, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said three emergency responders were killed and two others wounded, one of them critically, in an Israeli strike on Froun.

The ministry said the attack had targeted “a Lebanese civil defense team that was putting out fires sparked by the recent Israeli strikes.”

Lebanon’s civil defense agency said three of its employees were killed in “an Israeli strike that targeted a firefighting vehicle after they had finished a firefighting mission.”

The Israeli regime has been conducting near-daily attacks against southern Lebanon since October 7 last year, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, killing close to 41,000 Palestinians so far.

Hezbollah targets Israeli settlements with barrages of rockets

The Hezbollah resistance movement fires heavy barrages of rockets toward settlements north of the occupied Palestinian territories in retaliation for Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon.

Hezbollah has been responding with strikes aimed both at retaliating against the regime and supporting the war-hit Gazans.

The regime, which waged wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006, has repeatedly threatened to expand its attacks into another wholesale military onslaught against the country.

Hezbollah has vowed to defend the Lebanese soil with all its resources.

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