Alex Crawford
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Well, there is a pattern of the Lebanese paramedics, first responders who are racing to strikes, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon in particular, being attacked as they arrive at the scene of the strike.
That has been caught on camera.
It's been filmed by
Local people, it's now all the emergency crews are filming it themselves on GoPros.
And not just double taps.
In at least one case, there's been a triple tap where the emergency crews have turned up to try and help people who are trapped in.
They get attacked.
Then another emergency crew turned up and they too attacked.
were attacked.
Actually, one of the people that we interviewed a couple of weeks ago, who said he wouldn't give up his job, he was in hospital at the time, he put on his flak jacket, walked straight out again, and two weeks later, he was one of those who was killed in that triple attack.
It's led to more than 20 first responders and paramedics being killed within the time of the apparent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
That's since April the 17th.
More than 20 first responders have been killed in that period.
And to many people on the ground in Lebanon, there is no ceasefire, particularly in South Lebanon.
Well, they don't answer it directly.
They say that they take all precautions to avoid injuring civilians.
However, the evidence on the ground seems to contradict this.
And they also give very different, particularly in this one case where it was filmed.
You saw the medics on the ground in Der Renun beckoning civilians.
They'd arrived to tend to a Syrian father and his young daughter who'd been hit in an Israeli drone strike.