On May 22, 2026, a Syrian child and her father were killed, and a Syrian woman and another girl were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Deir Qanoun Al Naher, southern Lebanon. Following this incident, the injured Syrian woman and a number of other people, including multiple paramedics, were killed in a “double-tap” incident (see ISLB220526b) in which rescuers were targeted while trying to provide aid to those harmed in the initial attack.

At 4:57 p.m. on May 22, Gazan journalist Hussam Shabat reported (via Facebook) that “a series of massacres were perpetrated by the Israeli occupation in the town of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr in southern Lebanon, beginning with the targeting of a Syrian family, resulting in the martyrdom of the father and his daughter. Following this, paramedics from the Islamic Scout Association, including Ahmed, went to the scene to rescue the wounded and provide first aid. However, the enemy returned and directly targeted them while they were carrying out their humanitarian duty, leading to the martyrdom of two Lebanese paramedics and a civilian.”

The post included a video showing multiple casualties on the ground, with at least four people gathered around them attempting to provide aid. The video is narrated by a woman who states that there are injured people on the ground and others are attending to them; among the wounded is a young girl. She also mentions that her own daughter was struck in the hand by shrapnel but is otherwise fine. One of the responders is dressed in a yellow, high-visibility vest, as often worn by emergency personnel; he frantically waves up the road towards oncoming traffic before an ambulance drives into the frame and slows down at the scene. Just then, the video captures a projectile striking the vehicle directly; the woman exclaims that the ambulance has been hit and that people have been killed. A person can be seen kneeling next to the casualties from the initial incident before collapsing to the ground.

The following day, Facebook user @Ibrahem Elsayed shared four stills from the same video with a caption explaining that “after the [Israeli] army committed a massacre by targeting three members of a Syrian family and a child in Deir Qanoun al-Nahr in Lebanon, the ambulance arrived.” The images capture the initial moments of the video showing four people tending to the casualties near the side of a road and the ambulance entering the frame. The final shot shows the ambulance erupting into a fireball at the moment it reaches the scene.

On the day of the strike, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health released a statement announcing that “in a raid on Deir Qanoun al-Nahr in Tyre district, six people were killed, including two paramedics from the Al-Risala Association, one of whom was also a media professional, and a Syrian girl, in addition to six wounded, including three paramedics from Al-Risala and a Syrian woman.” Al-Risala is a civil defense group that primarily operates in southern Lebanon, Beqaa Valley and Shia suburbs of Beirut. This figure seems to include casualties from both strikes, some of which are covered separately in Airwars’ assessment for incident ISLB220526b.

Where sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli military.