Eight people, including civil defense rescuers were killed, two soldiers were wounded in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday, the country’s Health Ministry said, despite an ongoing cease-fire.
The Israeli military, meanwhile, announced it had found and destroyed a large Hezbollah tunnel network used by elite fighters in southern Lebanon.
Israel has been attacking Lebanon since early March, sending troops into south Lebanon to battle the Hezbollah group, with the violence ongoing despite a shaky April 17 cease-fire.
Lebanon's health ministry said, "the Israeli enemy's air raid on the town of Majdal Zoun... has in a preliminary toll killed five martyrs".
It said that included "three paramedics from the Lebanese civil defense who were trapped under the rubble after a strike that targeted them while they were carrying out a rescue mission".
