Clouds of smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike on the city of Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon, on Oct. 20, 2024. (Credit: AFP archive photo with a portrait of Fadel Ayoub provided by his brother. Montage by Céline Bejjani)
"He was the pride" of the family. The only one among eight brothers and sisters to have joined the army. An Israeli strike on Kfar Tibnit took the life of Corporal Fadel Abdallah Ayoub, around noon on Saturday, March 28, as he was coming to his village to pick up some belongings. It was the first time the 30-something had returned to the area after being displaced by Israel with his family.At suhour, on Monday, March 2, Fadel, his wife, Khadija, 34, and their two children, Fadak, four years old, and Ali-Reda, five years old, had fled Kfar Tibnit, in the Nabatieh district, to escape the Israeli fire raining down on the South after the rockets launched by Hezbollah. Their destination: Minyeh, 172 kilometers away by car. The Ayoub family knows this Sunni village well to the North. They had already taken refuge there during the...
"He was the pride" of the family. The only one among eight brothers and sisters to have joined the army. An Israeli strike on Kfar Tibnit took the life of Corporal Fadel Abdallah Ayoub, around noon on Saturday, March 28, as he was coming to his village to pick up some belongings. It was the first time the 30-something had returned to the area after being displaced by Israel with his family.At suhour, on Monday, March 2, Fadel, his wife, Khadija, 34, and their two children, Fadak, four years old, and Ali-Reda, five years old, had fled Kfar Tibnit, in the Nabatieh district, to escape the Israeli fire raining down on the South after the rockets launched by Hezbollah. Their destination: Minyeh, 172 kilometers away by car. The Ayoub family knows this Sunni village well to the North. They had already taken refuge there during the...
