The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah announced in the early hours of the morning that it had fired a barrage of rockets at a city in the north Israelin retaliation for an Israeli strike which, according to its Ministry of Health Lebanonclaimed the lives of three civil protection workers.

“In retaliation to the attacks of the enemy and especially the attack” which claimed the lives of civil protection workers in the village of Furun yesterday, Hezbollah fighters “bombarded” Kiryat Simona with a volley of rockets,” the Iranian-backed movement said. , in a press release he released.

Yesterday Saturday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that three members of emergency services were killed and two others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a civil protection group.

The latter participated in an operation to “extinguish fires caused by recent Israeli bombardments in the village of Frun,” the ministry explained, adding that one of the two injured is in a critical condition.

In a separate statement, the Lebanese Civil Protection confirmed the death of three of its members in “an Israeli bombardment that targeted a fire brigade vehicle”.

The Ministry of Health condemned the “Israeli attack” which targeted “a group of an official organ of the Lebanese state”.

Southern Lebanon and northern Israel have become the scene of virtually daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli armed forces since the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip on October 7 between Israel and its Palestinian ally Hamas. pro-Iranian Lebanese movement.

In Lebanese territory, these hostilities have claimed the lives of 614 people, mostly fighters from Hezbollah and other movements, but also at least 138 civilians, including journalists, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, 24 soldiers and 26 civilians have lost their lives, according to the army.

In a press release issued by his services, the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Najib Mikati, described yesterday’s Israeli operations as a “new attack” and a “blatant violation of international law.”

The Amal (“Hope”) movement, which is close to Hezbollah, said two of its members were among the victims, that they were killed “while performing their humanitarian duty.”

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, it was the “second” attack “against an emergency response team in less than 12 hours”.

Earlier yesterday, the ministry announced that two members of the immediate aid center staff of the Islamic Health Committee, an aid organization close to Hezbollah, were injured when “the Israeli military deliberately targeted” an area near a fire in Kabrika (south), resulting in the driver of the vehicle in which they were riding to lose control.