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The latest attacks hit Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon's east.
Colleagues and relatives carried the coffins of TV correspondent Fatma Fatuni, her cameraman brother Mohamed Fatuni, and another veteran TV journalist, Ali Shaib, a household name in Lebanon.
He's the one Israel says it targeted, claiming, without providing evidence, that he was a militant operating under the guise of a journalist.
Lebanon's president called the killings a blatant crime.
The Washington-based Watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says it's investigating what it calls a disturbing pattern of Israel accusing journalists of being terrorists.
A CPJ spokesperson said journalists are not legitimate targets regardless of the outlet they work for.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
The head of the World Health Organization calls it a tragedy.
Nine paramedics killed in five separate attacks on a single day.
He says health workers are protected under international humanitarian law and should never be targeted.
Israel has intensified its attacks across Lebanon, mostly here in the south where Israeli ground troops are moving northward to try to oust Hezbollah militants.
In one attack, an Israeli military spokesperson says the target was journalists, accusing them without providing evidence of propaganda for Hezbollah.
But Lebanon's health minister called it a double attack, with a second strike hitting first responders who tried to rescue the victims.
Health officials say 51 Lebanese health workers have been killed by Israel so far this month.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News in Jazeen, southern Lebanon.
Israeli officials say they'll take territory up to Lebanon's Litani River, 10 to 20 miles north of the Israeli border.
But now they've ordered residents out of a zone another 10 miles beyond that.
Thousands more are fleeing, sleeping in a soccer stadium in southern Beirut.
Israel's been bombing highways, bridges, homes and gas stations.
Its military released a video of a top commander surveying troops inside southern Lebanon.