[Salon] Israeli Drone Strike on Southern Lebanon Kills American Father and His Three Children



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Israeli Drone Strike on Southern Lebanon Kills American Father and His Three Children
Missiles targeted car and motorcycle traveling in Bint Jbeil
by Jason Ditz

An Israeli drone fired two missiles at a car and a motorcycle on a road in Bint Jbeil, in southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing at least five people, including three children. The Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed the deaths, and also reported two people were wounded. Four of the five, including all the children, were US citizens. They were a father and his three children. The mother was also present and among the wounded, and according to the Foreign Ministry, she is in critical condition.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun slammed the attack, calling it a massacre, and calling for the international community to pressure Israel into complying with the November ceasefire, both in not attacking and in withdrawing ground troops from Lebanon soil.

The vehicles were reportedly near a hospital at the time of attack, which is how a lot of bystanders were hit in the attack. It’s not clear who the people in the vehicles were either. Israel claimed a Hezbollah figure was killed in the attack, though it acknowledged that “several uninvolved civilians” were also slain. They said the killings were “under review.”

At least two more people were killed and 11 wounded on Friday in a pair of other Israeli attacks. One strike in Tibbin killed one and wounded 11, and then another person was killed in a vehicle in Ansar. Israel claimed that a Hezbollah commander was among the slain on Friday, but offered no evidence for this.

On Saturday another person was killed in an Israeli strike in Khardali. The person killed was in a civilian car, but was reportedly a Hezbollah member from Kfar Kela.

On Sunday, an Israeli helicopter also dropped a sound bomb on a funeral of the person killed in Khardali in Kfar Kela, There were no casualties reported in the strike on the funeral.



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