Four paramedics with the Lebanese Red Cross have been injured in southern Lebanon as a result of an Israeli air strike, the organisation said in a statement, Al Jazeera reports.

The emergency responders were on a rescue mission to a house in the town of Sarbin that was bombed by the Israeli military this morning and coordinated with UN peacekeepers to search for casualties.

But just as ambulances arrived, a second Israeli air strike hit the area, wounding the paramedics, who were taken to hospital but are not in life-threatening condition.

“As the team was searching for casualties to rescue, the house was hit for a second time resulting in concussions to the volunteers and damage to the two ambulances,” it said.