9 paramedics killed Saturday in strikes on Lebanon: Health minister
In a press conference Saturday, the Lebanese health minister said that Israeli strikes have targeted several paramedics in the last 12 hours alone, killing nine paramedics today.
He said that paramedics who were trying to reach the journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike were also directly targeted in a second attack in that location, killing a paramedic and a civilian.
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Fifty-one healthcare workers have been killed in Lebanon since the war began, including 46 paramedics. Eighteen ambulances have been attacked, and nine hospitals. Five hospitals have had to close.
There were five attacks on emergency medical services today, the minister said, four of them deadly.
