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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun also says Israel is violating international law that protects civilians and humanitarian workers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lebanon\u2019s prime minister has accused Israel of perpetrating a \u201cheinous crime\u201d in the targeting and killing of civil defence emergency workers, three of whom were among five people killed in a double Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n Two successive \u2060Israeli strikes on a building in the town of Majdal Zoun on Tuesday killed five people, including three rescue workers who went to help those injured in \u2060the initial Israeli attack on the targeted building, Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Health said.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cTargeting elements of the Civil Defence in Majdal Zoun, and their killing while carrying out their humanitarian duty, constitutes a new and described war crime perpetrated by Israel,\u201d Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cIt represents a flagrant violation of the principles and rules of international humanitarian law,\u201d Salam said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government will spare no effort to condemn this heinous crime in international forums and to mobilise all efforts to compel Israel to cease its ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the Lebanese Civil Defence told the Reuters news agency that the three rescuers were initially trapped under rubble by the \u2060second Israeli strike and were later confirmed to have died in the attack.<\/p>\n The Lebanese army said that two of its troops were also wounded in the second Israeli strike that targeted its forces, the rescue workers and two civilian bulldozers.<\/p>\n According to media reports, Israeli forces attacked a Lebanese military patrol, which was escorting the civil defence workers on the rescue mission at the site of the initial Israeli attack.<\/p>\n Despite a US-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, Israeli forces continue to carry out air strikes that kill and injure people on a daily basis, primarily in the south and east of the country.<\/p>\n Hezbollah has responded to the Israeli ceasefire violations by firing rockets and launching drones into Israel and occupied areas of southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun also issued a statement about the killing of the three civil defence personnel, which he said was only the latest in a \u201cseries of attacks that targeted relief and first aid workers\u201d.<\/p>\n The killings \u201cindicate that Israel continues to violate international laws and conventions that protect civilians, paramedics, Civil Defence personnel, the Red Cross, and workers in the fields of rescue, first aid, and medicine,\u201d Aoun said.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Ramzi Kaiss, a Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said the international silence around Israel\u2019s war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza had \u201conly emboldened the Israeli military\u2019s atrocities\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIsrael\u2019s allies, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other European Union states, should suspend all arms sales, arms transit, and military assistance to Israel and impose targeted sanctions on officials credibly implicated in ongoing grave crimes,\u201d Kaiss said.<\/p>\n \u201cCivilians are paying the price of the international community\u2019s silence and unwillingness to hold Israeli officials to account.\u201d<\/p>\n At least eight people were killed in attacks across Lebanon on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said, while the death toll from Israeli attacks on the country since March 2 has risen to 2,534, with 7,863 people wounded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lebanese President Joseph Aoun also says Israel is violating international law that protects civilians and humanitarian workers. Lebanon\u2019s prime minister has accused Israel of perpetrating a \u201cheinous crime\u201d in the targeting and killing of civil defence emergency workers, three of whom were among five people killed in a double Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. 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