Alex Crawford
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You see them wearing their neon jackets, beckoning the second ambulance as it's coming to help load the injured onto the ambulance.
And as the ambulance arrives, it takes a direct hit.
All those on the ground were killed.
crew inside the ambulance suffered injuries and they're still in hospital and when we put those pictures to the Israeli military they said that they had targeted a motorbike although we couldn't see
any evidence of a motorbike being on the ground and that the second strike was also against a motorbike.
And again, the pictures utterly contradicted this explanation.
Now, just to say that the Israeli military say that they are, and we've heard overnight, a very dramatic ratcheting up of the rhetoric from Israel with the Prime Minister, Bini Ben Netanyahu, saying that Israel
instructing the Israeli military to escalate the war in Lebanon because they're being very frustrated by the Hezbollah use of first-person view drones, FPV drones, as he mentioned in his video.
And that has led to a high number of Israeli soldiers being killed, 11.
during the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli military say that they've got nearly a thousand attacks on their troops in South Lebanon as well as in the northern Israel communities.
And they believe that they need to increase the pressure and they seem to be announcing a change in direction in particularly South Lebanon because they're not achieving their objectives right now.
Well, Israel is very much concerned about the
what they perceive as the threat from, it's more than a perception actually, from the Hezbollah armed group in Lebanon, who are firing, have been firing rockets into the communities in Northern Israel.
And this has been done in response to what's happening between the US, Israel and Iran.
Hezbollah is funded and very much aligned with the Iranian authorities, the Iranian
regime and Iran, the Iranian negotiators, also want to link what's happening in Lebanon to any peace deal that they have with the US and Israel.
So although Lebanon is very much, in inverted commas, a sideshow, they are a pawn in this bigger picture and there is an increasing number of civilian casualties.
in Lebanon, as well as casualties amongst the medical group and the medical infrastructure in Lebanon.
And Lebanon is a small country, but it has acted as a buffer between Iran
And Israel and the Iranian negotiators very much want it part of any deal.