Lebanon’s Health Ministry has reported at least 10 people killed today in a flurry of Israeli airstrikes in the south of the country. At least six of the slain were reportedly paramedics and one was a Syrian child.
The larger of the two strikes targeted the Shi’ite village of Deir Qanun. Six people were killed in that “double-tap” strike, including the Syrian girl and two paramedics with thr Risala Scout association.
An earlier strike was reported against the town of Hanaway that killed at least four additional paramedics, reportedly from the Islamic Health Committee. The Health Ministry’s updated toll since the war began is 3,111 killed and 9,342 wounded.
Emergency personnel work at the site of an Israeli strike, that killed multiple people according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, in Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, Tyre district, southern Lebanon, May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer
Other strikes were reported in the area of Tyre, though there have yet to be any confirmed casualties out of those areas. The IDF has also not commented on the large number of paramedics they have killed over the course of today.
Israel has had a recurring problem with paramedic casualties in their airstrikes, largely because of their tendency to double-attack sites during rescue attempts. In excess to 120 paramedics have been killed over the course of the war.
While the IDF has claimed the overwhelming majority of the slain in their strikes are Hezbollah operatives, the number of women, children and paramedics that are confirmed to be among the slain suggest that the IDF’s guestimate of the number of “terrorists” they’ve actually killed is a substantial overstatement.
