Three Lebanese paramedics have been killed and two others wounded, one critically, in an Israeli attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Faroun, Lebanon's health ministry said.
"Israeli forces targeted a team from the Lebanese Civil Defence as they responded to fires sparked by recent Israeli airstrikes," a ministry statement said, specifying that the strike hit a fire truck.
Prime Minister of Lebanon Najib Mikati condemned the Israeli attack as a violation of international law and announced an emergency meeting on Monday with Western ambassadors and international organisations to address the ongoing hostilities.
"To date, because of Israel's aggression, 25 paramedics from various ambulance teams have been killed, along with two health workers, and 94 paramedics and health workers have been injured," the health ministry statement added.
It also condemned the attack as a "blatant strike" on an official Lebanese state apparatus, marking the second such attack on an emergency team in less than 12 hours.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the report.
It had said earlier that it had carried out a number of strikes against Hezbollah rocket launchers and infrastructure in several locations in southern Lebanon, after the group fired rockets into northern Israel.
Hezbollah issued a statement, saying they launched a "squadron of missiles" in response to the attack, targeting the headquarters of Israel's 91st Division, which is responsible for its northern border, "hitting offices and soldiers with precision".
The intensity of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has increased steadily, displacing tens of thousands of people on either side of the Lebanese-Israeli frontier.
The conflict erupted after Hamas launched an attack on Israeli territory on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages into Gaza.
Since then, Hezbollah has been drawn into cross-border clashes in southern Lebanon.
