After 20 people including 15 first responders killed in Douris, rescuers ask why state service was targeted

Israel has been terrorising people for 76 years – that’s their modus operandi – Mark

All the corpses had been recovered but still the rescuers sifted through the rubble. A paramedic carried a sack with him, filled with the charred remains of his colleagues. Every few feet he stopped and knelt down, assessing. In the twisted mess left behind by the Israeli airstrike, it was hard to distinguish between flesh, earth and the life-saving equipment that had melted in the heat of the blast.

The night before, on Thursday, an Israeli jet had dropped a bomb on the salon of the Douris civil defence centre on the outskirts of the ancient Lebanese town of Baalbek, killing 20 people, including 15 first responders. Five were rendered unrecognisable by the force of the explosion. On Friday afternoon, emergency workers were still collecting bodily remains to be taken for DNA analysis.

Since fighting between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah started last year, 3,481 people have been killed in Lebanon, about 80% of them since Israel started its intensified aerial and ground campaign in late September, which has also displaced 1.2 million Lebanese and devastated swathes of the country.

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