Lebanon paramedics risk deadly strikes to do their work

BEIRUT: 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 p.m. and told that he was wounded and in the hospital,” his wife, Jeanne d’Arc Boutros, said from northern Lebanon, where she had fled to a relative’s home. “I knew my husband was strong and could endure. I did not react at all — I just kept praying and repeating in my heart that nothing bad would happen to him,” the 32-year-old schoolteacher said.