Lebanon Civil Defence says its firefighters targeted in Israeli drone attack

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Lebanon’s Civil Defence says its personnel were targeted by an Israeli drone while responding to a fire in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon, as more details emerge about a series of attacks there earlier today, Al Jazeera reports.

In a statement posted on Facebook, the Lebanese General Directorate of the Civil Defence has condemned the “targeting of Civil Defence personnel while performing their humanitarian duty”.

“While personnel from the General Directorate of the Civil Defence were extinguishing a grass fire in the Nabatieh area, they were targeted by a drone,” it says.

The attack forced the firefighting teams to withdraw to a safe location, the statement adds. No members of the team were injured.

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