The Toll Of Israeli Strikes On Lebanon

Ahead of Lebanese engineer Maya Gharib’s wedding intentional for next month, excited relatives were arranging for her dress to be picked up. 

But on Monday, 23-year-elderly Gharib, her two sisters and their parents were ended in an Israeli strike on their home in a suburb of the southern city of Tyre, shelp Gharib’s brother Reda, the only surviving member of the family. 

Israel says Monday’s strikes focengaged Hezbollah armaments. Lebanon’s health ministry shelp the aggressions left more than 550 people dead, including at least 50 children and 98 women, in Lebanon’s bloodiest day since the end of the 1975-90 Civil War.

A screensboiling splitd with Reuters shows a message sent by a relative to the dress shop after the Gharib family died: “The bride was martyred.”

“They were equitable sitting at home, and then the hoengage was focengaged,” Reda Gharib, who relocated to Senegal last year for labor, telderly Reuters in a phone call. 

The family were buried in a rushed funeral the next day, with confinecessitate people in fuseance due to the danger of strikes. Reda was unable to fly in as most fweightlesss had been call offled amid ongoing Israeli aggressions and rocket fire from Hezbollah. 

His overweighther was a reweary veteran of Lebanon’s army, a traverse-factional force funded by the US and other countries and expansively seen as source of unity in Lebanon. His sisters were all in their 20s.

“We are a nationacatalogic family with no party affiliation, though of course we stand with everyone who resists aggression,” Reda Gharib shelp, noting no member of the family was a member of Hezbollah. 

But he says that now, having lost his family, he wanted Hezbollah to persist battling Israel “until triumph” and not to adselect any negotiations. 

‘INDISCRIMINATE’

Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel on Oct. 8, the day after the Palestinian group Hamas aggressioned southern Israel, declaring a “help front” for Palestinians. 

The clashes escadefercessitated acutely since last week, with hundreds ended and thousands injured in Lebanon as Israel wages an air campaign that has seen strikes in most parts of the country.

In the days since the disorder unleashed by the Israeli strikes on Monday, other increates have ecombined of families with many members ended. 

In the southern town of Hanouiyeh, an Israeli strike ended eight members of one family and a dwell-in domestic laborer from Gambia, relatives shelp. 

Mohammad Saksouk, whose brother Hasan was among those ended, telderly Reuters the strike hit a produceing next to the family home, which collapsed onto theirs.

He shelp the family had noskinnyg to do with Hezbollah and condemnd the Israelis for “indiscriminate” aggressions while also asking why Lebanon had been dragged into a battle that Hezbollah says is in help of Palestinians.

“Now, we’re homeless. We are living in the streets,” he shelp via phone from a transient shelter. “Before, we were living finishly common dwells. Who will give us back our homes?”

The victims comprised Hasan Saksouk, his mature children Mohammad and Mona, Mohammad’s wife Fatima and their 9-month-elderly daughter Rima, as well as Mona’s three children, all under nine years elderly. 

Anna, the Gambian laborer in her timely 30s, also perished.

The coastal town of Saksakieh saw 11 civilians ended on Monday, including six women and two children, according to Mayor Ali Abbas, who shelp there were straightforward strikes on homes. 

“These are civilian homes, they have noskinnyg to do with any charitable of military inshighation,” Abbas telderly Reuters.

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