The Lebanese army said on Thursday that three of its soldiers were killed by Israeli fire while carrying out a rescue operation in the south.
“The Israeli enemy targeted Lebanese army personnel in the vicinity of Yater village, in the Bint Jbeil area of the south, while carrying out an operation to evacuate wounded, which led to the deaths of three martyrs, including an officer,” an army statement said.
Israeli forces also unleashed a wave of air strikes in Beirut on Wednesday night, Lebanese state media said, as Israel’s expanded war on Lebanon passed its one-month mark.
With six buildings levelled in at least 17 Israeli raids, the strikes mark one of the most brutal nights in the capital’s southern suburbs since the war escalated on 23 September.
