Four men, all paramedics, were killed and another injured when their ambulance was hit by an alleged Israeli airstrike in the town of Shahour on 3 June 2026. This assessment documents the third strike in a series of three strikes, with the first recorded in ISLB030626c and the second recorded in ISLB030626ca.
Two paramedics - 43-year-old Commander Hassan Ali Muhammad and 20-year-old Muhammad Qasim al-Laqis - were killed after arriving at the scene to help those previously injured. Paramedic Ali Fadlallah Dheeb was killed after sustaining injuries in an earlier strike. Ali Nour el-Din Sharaf el-Din was also recorded killed and mourned along with the other men, but it is unclear if he was also a paramedic or could've been injured in an earlier attack.
Multiple sources mentioned that another paramedic was critically wounded in the attack and required immediate surgery.
Mohammad Zreik memorialised Ali, describing him as a brother “though not born of my mother.” “My elder brother,” Zreik wrote, “forgive me if I fell short in my duty to you.” Mohammad Zreik also wrote that he “lived as a soldier defending the homeland” but was “martyred as a medic resisting for the sake of the people of the town,” while Risala News reported that the “Amal Movement [mourned] the martyrdom of the wounded fighter, Ali Fadlallah Dheeb.” “City weather” wrote that Dheeb was “the son of Fadlallah Dib [Dheeb]” who was “the first resistance fighter in the town of Shahour.” Based on this ambiguous language, Ali has been counted as a "contested" civilian/combatant until further information Is found.
Hassan was born on 3 December 1982 in Shahour, and was a Commander for the Shahour team of the Al-Risala Ambulance Association, according to source “Ya Sour website.” Included in this post was a photograph of Hassan - a bearded man wearing a yellow uniform vest.
Muhammad was born on 2 April 2026 in Jouya. Amal Kazzan wrote “with immense pride and honour” of the “martyrdom of my brother, my beloved, and my friend, the heroic martyr Muhammad al-Laqis.” To lose him was “so difficult,” Amal wrote, but he was a “hero,” a “title [that] suits [him].” With his death, Amal wrote, he had “broken [her] heart.” Musa Mahmoud Nazzal emphasised that Muhammad “carried no weapon but his humanity,” and sought “only to save the lives of the wounded.” His legacy, Musa believed, would be one of “a courageous medic who never retreated in the face of danger, nor hesitated to answer the call of duty.”
Multiple photographs show Muhammad in a brown jacket.
“City weather” described the paramedics as those who had a “dream to be greater than the individual” and who “did not seek glory for yourselves, but rather the dignity of the place that gave you your name, your identity, and your memory.”
A funeral service was held for Hassan and Muhammad, alongside the others killed in the series of strikes; pictures were shared by Mhamad Nahal.