Israeli airstrike wipes out entire family in southern Lebanon

By Wassim Seif El Din

BEIRUT (AA) – Four members of the same family, including a child, were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in southern Lebanon early Tuesday, local media said.

The state news agency NNA said a father, wife and their two sons lost their lives in the attack that targeted the town of Jarjouaa.

The family’s house was levelled in the attack.

The new attack came a day after at least 23 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the border town of Aitaroun on Monday.

Israel has mounted a huge air campaign across Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing at least 1,542 people, injuring over 4,555 others, and displacing more than 1.34 million people.

The aerial campaign is an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, in which Israel has killed nearly 42,300 people, most of them women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.

Despite international warnings that the Mideast was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, it expanded the conflict on Oct. 1 by launching a ground incursion into southern Lebanon.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar