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Israel kept up strikes connected Lebanon connected Saturday (March 14, 2026) arsenic Beirut said 26 paramedics had been killed since the latest warfare erupted betwixt Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah this month.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the Lebanese authorities was acceptable to prosecute successful "direct talks" with Israel and offered to big negotiations successful Paris, informing that "everything indispensable beryllium done to forestall Lebanon from descending into chaos."
Lebanon was dragged into the Middle East warfare past week erstwhile militant radical Hezbollah attacked Israel successful effect to the sidesplitting of Iranian ultimate person Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successful US-Israeli strikes.
Hezbollah's person Naim Qassem said Friday (March 13, 2026) that his radical was acceptable for a agelong confrontation with Israel.
Israel's subject said it had struck "approximately 110 Hezbollah bid centres" since the determination struggle broke out.
Lebanese wellness authorities said an overnight Israeli onslaught killed 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses moving astatine a healthcare centre successful the confederate municipality of Burj Qalawiya.
The Israeli Army said Saturday (March 14, 2026) that a time earlier it struck Hezbollah operatives "who were bringing rockets into a weapons depot" successful Majedel, astir 7 kilometres (four miles) from Burj Qalawiya.
Lebanon's Health Ministry accused Israel of repeatedly "targeting ambulance crews portion they were performing rescue duties", portion the Israeli subject accused Hezbollah of utilizing ambulances militarily.
Israeli subject spokesperson Avichay Adraee warned that Israel would enactment "in accordance with planetary instrumentality against immoderate subject activity" by immoderate Hezbollah usage of aesculapian facilities oregon ambulances.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the Burj Qalawiya onslaught deed an Islamic Health Committee facility, but a connection from the Hezbollah-affiliated organisation did not place the tract arsenic theirs.
'No safety'
On Saturday, an Israeli onslaught deed an flat gathering successful a bluish Beirut suburb that had been targeted a time earlier, with authorities media besides reporting strikes successful the country's south.
An AFP analogous successful the Nabaa-Burj Hammoud country saw rescue workers astatine the country and harm including a spread successful a building, extracurricular Hezbollah's strongholds successful the capital's confederate suburbs.
The wellness ministry said the onslaught killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 4 others.
The aforesaid gathering had been struck connected Friday without causing casualties.
Burj Hammoud is simply a densely populated, mixed country known for its ample Armenian-Lebanese community.
Levon Ghazalian, 42, who lives successful the gathering adjacent door, said "it's the archetypal clip this happens" successful the area, which was spared successful the erstwhile struggle betwixt Israel and Hezbollah successful 2024.
"All the neighbours are afraid," helium told AFP, staring astatine the country with his daughter.
Hanadi Hachem, 50, who was successful her pyjamas, said "there's nary information anymore... you ne'er cognize wherever a onslaught volition travel from".
She said she and immoderate household members were sleeping successful their car retired of fear.
In the suburbs of the confederate coastal metropolis of Sidon, authorities media reported a onslaught targeted an flat successful the Haret Saida area.
An AFP correspondent determination said the onslaught deed a residential gathering successful the densely populated area, causing a fire.
UN peacekeepers
On a sojourn to Lebanon that began connected Friday, UN main Antonio Guterres called connected Israel and Hezbollah to "stop the war" and launched a $325 cardinal humanitarian entreaty to enactment Lebanon, wherever hundreds of thousands of radical person been displaced.
Guterres met service main Rodolphe Haykal connected Saturday, Lebanon's subject said, discussing the request to adhere to a 2024 ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hezbollah, and for the service to instrumentality its program to disarm the militant group.
On Friday, the NNA said Israeli occurrence deed a UN basal hosting Nepali peacekeepers successful the confederate borderline municipality of Mais al-Jabal.
Kandice Ardiel, spokesperson for the United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon, told AFP Saturday that 1 of the peacekeepers' positions adjacent Mais al-Jabal was hit, "likely by dense instrumentality weapon fire", sparking a fire, with 1 peacekeeper lightly wounded.
"We person launched an investigation. We punctual each actors of their obligations to guarantee the information and information of peacekeepers astatine each times," she said, without identifying the root of the gunfire.
