{"id":103836,"date":"2026-05-08T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:07:08","slug":"israeli-strike-in-lebanon-kills-emergency-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103836\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike in Lebanon kills emergency worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Israel has continued to bomb Lebanon despite the 17 April ceasefire with Hezbollah [Getty]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\">A Lebanese emergency worker was killed in a targeted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/lebanon-israel-attacks-kill-12-nabatieh-marjayoun-districts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli airstrike<\/a> in the south of the country on Friday, according to Lebanese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has mounted daily attacks across the country in violation of the ceasefire that was supposed to halt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/tag\/lebanon-israel-conflict\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the fighting<\/a> three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Lebanon&#8217;s civil defence said a rescuer was killed &#8220;as a result of an Israeli strike that targeted him&#8221; on a road in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces have killed at least 103 healthcare workers and emergency responders since 2 March, according to Lebanon&#8217;s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization said Wednesday it had verified 152 separate Israeli attacks on healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military ordered residents of seven villages in the south to flee in what the latest in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/israel-issues-evacuation-warnings-11-south-lebanon-villages\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series of displacement orders<\/a> targeting Shia-majority areas across the south.<\/p>\n<p>The orders covered six villages east of Tyre and the town of Nmairiyeh north of Nabatieh.<\/p>\n<p>More than one million people have been displaced in Israel&#8217;s offensive, which has depopulated swathes of southern Lebanon and seen Israeli forces seize territory deep into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli shelling was reported in several areas of the south on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah began on 17 April as part of a truce between Iran and the US, though Israel has violated it daily. On Wednesday, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/israel-strikes-south-beirut-salam-rules-out-normalisation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bombed Beirut<\/a> for the first time during the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has launched retaliatory attacks against Israeli troops occupying the country.<\/p>\n<p>At least 2,727 people have been killed, and another 8,438 others have been injured in Israeli strikes since 2 March, when Hezbollah targeted Israel in response to the US-Israeli assassination of Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has continued to bomb Lebanon despite the 17 April ceasefire with Hezbollah [Getty] A Lebanese emergency worker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[100,37,93,626,17197],"class_list":{"0":"post-103836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-hezbollah","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-lebanon-israel-conflict","12":"tag-medics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116538641600632321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}