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Family of four killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanese town
An Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese town of Jarjouh, in the Iqlim al-Tuffah area, has killed four people from one family.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported Mohammad Hassan Mashourb, his wife Ghida Farhat, and their two children – Rayan and Ali Mashourb – died in the attack on their home in al-Sharaik neighbourhood.
Mashourb worked at Ogero, a telecommunications company, and had been helping to repair the region’s telephone network disrupted in recent weeks because of ongoing Israeli attacks.
UNICEF says 400,000 children displaced in Lebanon in 3 weeks
The UN children’s agency warns of a “lost generation” in the country grappling with multiple crises and now Israeli attacks. Fighting in Lebanon has driven 1.2 million people from their homes, most fleeing to Beirut and elsewhere in the north over the past three weeks.
Ted Chaiban, UNICEF’s deputy executive director for humanitarian actions, visited schools that have been turned into shelters to host displaced families.
“What struck me is that this war is three weeks old and so many children have been affected,” he said. “As we sit here today, 1.2 million children are deprived of education. Their public schools have either been rendered inaccessible, have been damaged by the war, or are being used as shelters.”
Many victims of Israeli strike on north Lebanon were women and children: UN
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says it has received reports that most of the victims of an Israeli air strike on a building in northern Lebanon were women and children.
Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a Geneva news briefing that “12 women and two children” were among those killed in the attack in the Christian-majority town of Aitou. At least 21 people were killed in the air strike, Lebanese health officials said.
“We understand it was a four-storey residential building that was struck. With these factors in mind, we have real concerns with respect to IHL [international humanitarian law], so the laws of war and the principles of distinction proportion and proportionality,” he said while calling for an investigation into the incident.
Paramedics unearth a body from the rubble at the site of an Israeli air strike on October 14, 2024, that killed 22 people in northern Lebanon
