Lebanon’s health ministry has said 10 people, including three emergency workers, were killed by Israeli strikes on south Lebanon today, as state media reported raids on more than a dozen locations, according to AFP.

The ministry said three deadly strikes hit locations in the Nabatiyeh district, with the dead including a member of the Lebanese civil defence and two paramedics from the Islamic Health Committee, decrying what it said was Israel’s “systematic” targeting of emergency workers.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Yohmor on April 11, 2026. — AFP
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Yohmor on April 11, 2026. — AFP

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