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6 Health Workers Killed in Israeli Strikes in South Lebanon

A damaged vehicle and the rubble from overnight's Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Abbassiyeh are pictured on October 31, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)
A damaged vehicle and the rubble from overnight's Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Abbassiyeh are pictured on October 31, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)
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6 Health Workers Killed in Israeli Strikes in South Lebanon

A damaged vehicle and the rubble from overnight's Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Abbassiyeh are pictured on October 31, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)
A damaged vehicle and the rubble from overnight's Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Abbassiyeh are pictured on October 31, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)

Six Lebanese health workers were killed and four wounded in Israeli strikes across south Lebanon on Thursday, the health ministry said in a statement.

The strikes killed five paramedics with the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee and one with the Amal-linked Risala Scouts, the ministry said.

The total number of health workers killed by Israel since October 2023 rose to 178 and 279 wounded, the ministry added.

Israeli attacks killed 45 people in Lebanon in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 2,865 since October 2023, the ministry said in a separate statement. 

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Iran Rejects Accusations it Interfered in Syria

Women smoke a water pipe as they sit on a lookout area at the mount Qasioun in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Women smoke a water pipe as they sit on a lookout area at the mount Qasioun in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Iran Rejects Accusations it Interfered in Syria

Women smoke a water pipe as they sit on a lookout area at the mount Qasioun in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Women smoke a water pipe as they sit on a lookout area at the mount Qasioun in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Iran's foreign ministry on Thursday expressed “concern” over “the spread of chaos and violence” in Syria and rejected accusations that Tehran interfered in Syria, after the new Syrian foreign minister told Tehran not to spread chaos in his country.
"We reject the baseless accusations by some media ... against Iran over interfering in Syria's internal affairs," Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei was quoted as saying by state media.
"It is necessary to prevent the spread of insecurity and violence ... and ensure the security of Syrian citizens," he added.

Syria's newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, said on Tuesday that Iran must respect the will of the Syrian people and Syria's sovereignty and security.

"We warn them against spreading chaos in Syria and we hold them accountable for the repercussions of the latest remarks," he said.

On Sunday, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called on Syrian youth to "stand with firm determination against those who have orchestrated and brought about this insecurity.”

Khamenei forecast "that a strong and honorable group will also emerge in Syria because today Syrian youth have nothing to lose,” calling the country unsafe.

The former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohsen Rezaee, said that the Syrian people “will not remain silent in the face of foreign occupation and aggression” or “the tyranny of an internal group.”

He added: "They will revive the resistance in Syria in a new form in less than a year."

"They will fail the malicious and deceptive plan led by America, the Zionist entity, and the regional countries that have been manipulated,” he added.