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WHO says another health worker is killed in southern Lebanon

Paramedic killed in ambulance strike as WHO toll reaches 51 since Mar  2

WHO says another health worker is killed in southern Lebanon
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Published : 30 Mar 2026, 06:56 AM

Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 03:32 PM

The World Health Organization said on Sunday that another health worker was killed in southern Lebanon due to Israel's expanding military operations in the region.

A paramedic was killed in a strike on an ambulance in Bint Jbeil, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an X post, adding that a medical warehouse in the same city was destroyed in an attack.

Before the latest casualty, WHO had verified 51 Lebanese health workers killed since Mar 2, including nine paramedics on Saturday, Tedros said.

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