{"id":1220,"date":"2026-04-15T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/paramedics-in-lebanon-describe-impact-of-israeli-strikes-amidst-renewed-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:22:06","slug":"paramedics-in-lebanon-describe-impact-of-israeli-strikes-amidst-renewed-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=1220&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Paramedics in Lebanon Describe Impact of Israeli Strikes, Amidst Renewed Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega reported from Nabatieh, Lebanon, a city now largely abandoned, where he accompanied paramedics on duty. The ongoing conflict has displaced one in five people in Lebanon since fighting escalated in March.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, a paramedic at a damaged ambulance station recounted the death of a colleague, reportedly killed by an Israeli strike while speaking with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli authorities have stated that some ambulances and health facilities in Lebanon are being utilized by Hezbollah, a claim paramedics deny, asserting a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that their troops eliminated over 20 Hezbollah fighters operating from a hospital compound in Bint Jbeil on Sunday. This location was a significant site of conflict during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon&#8217;s health ministry, however, refuted the IDF&#8217;s claim, accusing Israel of targeting civilians and medical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>#LebanonConflict #IsraeliStrikes #MiddleEastCrisis #ParamedicsUnderFire #HumanitarianCrisis #Displacement #Hezbollah #IDF #Nabatieh #BintJbeil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega reported from Nabatieh, Lebanon, a city now largely abandoned, where he accompanied paramedics on duty. The ongoing conflict has displaced one in five people in Lebanon since fighting escalated in March. During his visit, a paramedic at a damaged ambulance station recounted the death of a colleague, reportedly killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}