A file handout picture released by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) shows a relief convoy carrying medical items having a stopover 10 km from Syrian cities of Zabadani and Madaya, some 50 km northwest of Damascus, on October 18, 2015. PHOTO: AFP
GENEVA/BEIRUT:
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was deeply concerned by attacks on medical workers in Lebanon after a deadly strike on a Red Cross centre in the country on Monday and the death of a volunteer a day earlier.
Lebanon’s state news agency reported that Monday’s strike, which it said was carried out by Israel, killed one person and damaged Lebanese Red Cross vehicles.
The ICRC said the Lebanese Red Cross centre in the district of Tyre, a city on Lebanon’s coast, was hit by the strike. It did not comment on who was responsible or give details of the victim.
Israel’s military it had carried out a targeted strike on a “Hezbollah terrorist” in Tyre on Monday and was investigating reports the strike had caused damage to a Red Cross centre. The military did not identify the individual who it said it had killed.
On Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said one of its volunteers, Hassan Badawi, had died from his injuries after a strike by an Israeli drone in the district of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.
Badawi had volunteered for the Lebanese Red Cross since 2012, his friend Ahmed Qassam told Reuters during his funeral on Monday. Reuters
