Lebanese civil defense carries out 117 missions in 24 hours, mostly due to Israeli bombing

The Lebanese Civil Defense Directorate announced on Wednesday that its personnel carried out 117 missions in the past 24 hours, including firefighting, first aid, rescue operations, and general services. The majority of these missions were in response to Israeli aggression.

In a statement carried by the Lebanese National News Agency, the Directorate explained that the Civil Defense teams responded to 10 fires, including two house fires caused by Israeli shelling, two brush and forest fires, a fire in a wood storage room, two vehicle fires caused by Israeli shelling, a fire in a heating appliance workshop, a car fire, and a house fire.

In the area of rescue operations, the Lebanese Civil Defense carried out three missions: two involving debris removal and search and rescue operations following Israeli shelling, and one rescue operation from inside an elevator.

The Civil Defense also carried out 46 ambulance missions, including 13 missions to transport the wounded and the bodies of martyrs as a result of the Zionist bombing, 18 emergency cases, 4 traffic accidents, 10 patient transports, and one body transport.

The Civil Defense indicated that it carried out 54 missions to transport water to shelters for those displaced by the Zionist aggression, in addition to one public service mission and three public safety missions.

Since March 2nd, the Israeli enemy has escalated its criminal aggression against Lebanon, targeting Lebanese towns, villages, and cities, intensifying its raids, coinciding with the aggression launched by America and the Zionist entity against Iran.