Israeli airstrike destroys medical truck

A truck carrying United Arab Emirates medical aid for Lebanon was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike today, an Emirates official said.

In Beirut, a Lebanese security official confirmed that one truck in a convoy of vehicles transporting Emirates aid had been hit and set on fire as it was travelling along a mountain road shortly after crossing into Lebanon.

The convoy, which included ambulances, was clearly marked as a relief operation, the Emirates official said.

He said nobody was wounded in the airstrike, but in Lebanon one driver was reported as injured.

Lebanese TV broadcast pictures of a truck on fire and another damaged on the mountain road. The aid was part of Emirates’ support for Lebanon during the Israeli offensive.