Beirut, Lebanon, March 17, 2026 (AFP) - Southern Lebanon paramedics risk deadly Israeli strikes to do their work

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Youssef Assaf was in a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance when it was targeted by an Israeli strike near Tyre, in southern Lebanon. The 35-year-old paramedic died of his wounds two days later. "I was called around 10:30 pm and told that he was wounded and in the hospital," his wife, Jeanne d'Arc Boutros, told AFP from northern Lebanon, where she had fled to a relative's home. "I knew my husband is strong and can endure. I didn't react at all -- I just......

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