Ongoing heavy civilian toll in Lebanon 'unacceptable': Red Cross

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GENEVA (AFP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross slammed the ongoing heavy civilian casualties in the conflict in Lebanon as "unacceptable".

"The ICRC has repeatedly expressed its concerns about insufficient precautions taken in attacks by the parties to the armed conflict," the agency said in a statement Sunday.

"It is unacceptable that after more than 30 days of ongoing military operations, all necessary precautions to spare civilian life and those engaged in medical work have still not been taken," it said.

The humanitarian agency highlighted an Israeli air strike Friday on hundreds of people fleeing the area of Marajayoun by car, in which six were killed and 32 were wounded.

A Lebanese Red Cross volunteer, Mikhael Jbayleh, was killed...