Mourners gathered Wednesday in the coastal city of Tyre in southern Lebanon to bury a paramedic killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Ahmed Ibrahim Deeb was a first responder with the civil defense team affiliated with the Amal Movement, a Shi’ite political party allied with Hezbollah.
Amal spokesperson Alwan Sharafeddine said he was killed by a strike in his hometown, Shohour, to the east of Tyre, while on a motorcycle heading to his civil defense post for work.
He was buried in a temporary grave because the fighting has made it too risky to hold funerals in some home towns.
“He was one of the young men from the town who refused to be displaced and insisted on remaining steadfast on their land,” Sharafeddine said.
Lebanon’s health ministry said Wednesday that Israeli strikes have killed 42 paramedics since the resurgence of war between Israel and Hezbollah on March 2.
