An Israeli strike on a car in Kfour, in Nabatieh, on 17 July 2025. (Credit: Muntasser Abdallah/L'Orient Today)
The past week has been a bloody week in Lebanon marked by a series of Israeli strikes across the Bekaa and southern Lebanon, which killed 16 people since Monday, including civilians and Hezbollah fighters.On Thursday night, the voice note of a 10-year-old girl crying out, "Please come help me, my mom and dad are dying," went viral across social media platforms in Lebanon after the Israeli army struck her house in Qabrikha (Marjeyoun), killing her parents, Jaafar Hijazi and Rashida Babari.Hezbollah later claimed Hijazi as one of its fighters. According to local social media news platform Eye on Lebanon, Hijazi was a "hardworking southerner."The Israeli army also announced Thursday that it had “struck and eliminated” Hassan Ahmad Sabra, a "commander of the naval unit of Hezbollah's Radwan Force," in Kfour...
The past week has been a bloody week in Lebanon marked by a series of Israeli strikes across the Bekaa and southern Lebanon, which killed 16 people since Monday, including civilians and Hezbollah fighters.On Thursday night, the voice note of a 10-year-old girl crying out, "Please come help me, my mom and dad are dying," went viral across social media platforms in Lebanon after the Israeli army struck her house in Qabrikha (Marjeyoun), killing her parents, Jaafar Hijazi and Rashida Babari.Hezbollah later claimed Hijazi as one of its fighters. According to local social media news platform Eye on Lebanon, Hijazi was a "hardworking southerner."The Israeli army also announced Thursday that it had “struck and eliminated” Hassan Ahmad Sabra, a "commander of the naval unit of Hezbollah's Radwan Force," in...
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