Israeli strike kills 10 firefighters in Lebanon, authorities say

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At least 10 firefighters have been ******* in an ******** air strike in a border area in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says.

A statement said the firefighters had been “ready to go out on rescue missions” from a municipal building in Baraachit when it was struck overnight.

Rescuers were still searching for people trapped under the rubble, it added.

There was no immediate comment from the ******** military, but it said overnight that fighter jets had struck targets belonging to the armed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

On Monday afternoon, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that ******** aircraft had struck more than 30 towns and villages around the southern coastal city of Tyre.

The BBC’s Orla Guerin, who is in Tyre, said some of the locations hit were in the hills close to the border with *******, but that at least one struck a built-up area of the city.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) said at the time that it was conducting “extensive” strikes against Hezbollah in the south, as well as a “targeted” strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

The ******** invasion of southern Lebanon also appeared to be expanding, with the IDF saying that a third division had joined the ground operation it launched six days ago to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure near the border.

The IDF also ordered the evacuation of another 20 communities in the south, including the coastal town of Naqoura where the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have their headquarters.

Three weeks of intense ******** strikes and other attacks in Lebanon have ******* more than 1,400 people, including 22 on Sunday, and displaced another 1.2 million, according to Lebanese authorities.

Hezbollah – a Shia Islamist political, military and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon – has remained defiant despite suffering a series of devastating blows in recent weeks, including the ******** of its leader and most of its top military commanders.

On Monday, the group insisted it was “confident… in the ability of our resistance to oppose the ******** aggression”.

It came hours after Hezbollah rockets struck the northern ******** port city of Haifa and the town of Tiberias, causing damage and nine injuries.

Another 135 rockets were fired from Lebanon into ******* on Monday, according to the IDF. Police said a road was damaged in the Lower Galilee region between Haifa and Tiberias.

*******’s government – which designates Hezbollah as a ********** organisation – has pledged to make it safe for tens of thousands of displaced residents to return to their homes near the Lebanese border after a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the Gaza war.

The hostilities have escalated steadily since Hezbollah began ******* rockets into northern ******* in support of Palestinians on 8 October 2023, the day after its ally ******’s deadly ******* on southern *******.

*******’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting on Monday that the “counterattack on our enemies in Iran’s axis of evil is necessary for securing our future and ensuring our security”.

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