Israel kills 10 people in Lebanon, including rescuers and a child in a ‘double tap’ strike
Despite agreeing to cease fire multiple times, Israel has killed 3,111 Lebanese people since February, including 123 medics, over 210 children, and nearly 300 women.
Since February, Israel has killed 123 medics, more than 210 children and nearly 300 women in Lebanon. / TRT World
May 22, 2026
Lebanon’s health ministry has said that Israeli forces killed 10 people in new truce violations, including six rescuers and a child, with some of them killed in a “double-tap” attack captured on video.
In a statement on Friday, the Lebanese ministry said “six people were martyred”, including two rescuers from the Risala Scouts association and a Syrian girl, in an attack on Deir Qanun al-Nahr village near the city of Tyre.
An earlier strike on the southern town of Hanaway killed four rescuers, the ministry said.
Videos circulating on social media claim to show the killing of a father and his child in an attack by occupying Israeli forces, followed by a subsequent strike as rescuers gather at the scene.
Footage captured by a resident from her window shows the moment paramedics were killed by Israel in Deir Qanun al-Nahr, southern Lebanon.
Rescuers are seen trying to assist casualties, including a child, lying in the street following an earlier Israeli attack.
“An innocent child… what did she ever do?” the woman asks in the video documenting the aftermath of an Israeli attack.
Then an ambulance arrives.
Moments later, another missile from Israeli forces directly hits the site. A sudden flash and explosion are immediately followed by widespread panic.
“They hit the medics… they hit the medics. The medics are gone, the medics are gone …” the woman screams in terror.
A paramedic sitting beside the wounded suddenly collapses as a woman cries out: “Oh my God… he’s dead…”
Double-tap strikes are a pattern Israel has routinely used since the beginning of its genocide in Gaza, monitors say, with the second strike intended to kill first responders and rescue workers arriving at the scene.
Only psychopaths could enjoy carrying out double tap strikes on first responders. It is a common pattern. Like serial killers, it is the trademark of the Israeli ‘Defence’ Force.
Regarding International law of occupiers of territory – here is an extract of historically agreed laws, which are no longer adhered to by what was once a respected nation:
Relief Supplies and Actions
The occupying power has the duty to ensure that the adequate provision of food and medical supplies is provided, as well as clothing, bedding, means of shelter, other supplies essential to the survival of the civilian population of the occupied territory, and objects necessary for religious worship (GCIV Arts. 55, 58; API Art. 69).
The occupying power must allow the protecting power, or the ICRC and other impartial humanitarian organizations, to verify the state of these supplies in occupied territories, and to visit protected persons so as to monitor their condition (GCIV Arts. 30, 55, and 143). It is also under the obligation to allow the ICRC or any other impartial humanitarian organization to undertake their own strictly humanitarian relief actions aimed at this population. All States must allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of all relief supplies and must not divert them, in any way whatsoever, from their destination. The only restrictions that parties to the conflict may impose are technical ones, or they may ask for guarantees that the relief is destined to the population in need and will not be used by the adverse power.
The fact that humanitarian organizations are delivering relief in no way relieves the occupying power of any of its own responsibilities to ensure that the population is properly supplied (GCIV Arts. 59–62 and 108–111; API Arts. 69–71).
The occupying power must not transfer or deport the population of occupied territories or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies (GCIV Art. 49 and Rule 130 of the 2005 ICRC customary IHL study).
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
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