A drone missile targeted a car carrying a family of six in the town of Bint Jbeil
Israeli drone strikes have murdered five people, including a father and his three children, in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, in what has been denounced as ‘a massacre’.
In the late afternoon on Sunday, two consecutive missiles were fired, with one targeting a motorcycle, and another hitting a car carrying a family of six.
The victims were identified as Shadi Sharara and three of his children – Celine, Hadi, and Silane – all American citizens.
Their mother Amani and sister Aseel were wounded.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in a statement that the family held US citizenship. President Joseph Aoun condemned the strike and urged the international community to pressure Israel to respect the ceasefire reached with Hezbollah in late November.
‘As we are in New York to discuss matters of peace and human rights, Israel continues its ongoing violations of international resolutions,’ Aoun said in a statement on X.
He accused Israel of ‘committing a new massacre in Bint Jbeil’. The president is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly.
Despite a legal truce, the terrorist Jews making up the Israeli military have continued to strike what it claims are ‘Hezbollah positions’ in southern Lebanon, while frequently violating Lebanese airspace and maintaining its occupation of areas in the south.
Israel has stepped up both the number and frequency of its strikes this week.
According to a tally by Lebanese newspaper L’Orient Today, at least 308 people have been murdered in Lebanon since the ceasefire took effect.
Speaking to L’Orient Today, the president of Bint Jbeil municipal council, Mohammad Bazzi, called the attack a ‘massacre of civilians’, adding that the bodies of the victims had been ‘mutilated and scattered’.
The Lebanese army said the recent strikes took Israeli violations of the ceasefire to 4,500 since November.