Norway ‘alarmed’ by attacks on journalists, health care workers in Lebanon

Norway’s foreign minister on Sunday expressed concern over attacks on journalists and health care workers in Lebanon, urging respect for international humanitarian law, Anadolu reports. “I am deeply concerned by developments in #Lebanon, and alarmed by the attacks on health care workers and journalists. Medical personnel, hospitals, and members of the press must be protected,” Espen Barth Eide wrote on the US social media platform X. He called for international humanitarian law to be respected “at all times.” The comments came after two paramedics were reportedly killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a center belonging to the Islamic Health Organization near Bint Jbeil Hospital in southern Lebanon. READ: 3 journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanese city of Jezzine […]