The brothers Ali and Karam Moussa were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in Tibnin, southern Lebanon, on March 11, 2026. (Edit by Céline Bejjani/L’Orient-Le Jour)
Their hands had never let go. Not in childhood, when they were small and gentle, nor later, when they grew rough and worn from working the land. Not even after they slipped wedding rings onto their fingers and each had children of their own.“Only exhaustion after a long day could separate them,” said Hassan Moussa, the brother of Karam, 52, and Ali Moussa, 50. The two men were killed, along with their sons, in an Israeli airstrike without any warning on Tebnine, in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, on March 11.Only then, at nightfall, would Karam stand up, say goodbye to his younger brother, and go to his room on the second floor of their small house, built in 1998 on the edge of the village. The rest of the family chose to live separately with their own households. Not them.It is 5:03 p.m. on March 11, 10 days after the start...
Their hands had never let go. Not in childhood, when they were small and gentle, nor later, when they grew rough and worn from working the land. Not even after they slipped wedding rings onto their fingers and each had children of their own.“Only exhaustion after a long day could separate them,” said Hassan Moussa, the brother of Karam, 52, and Ali Moussa, 50. The two men were killed, along with their sons, in an Israeli airstrike without any warning on Tebnine, in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, on March 11.Only then, at nightfall, would Karam stand up, say goodbye to his younger brother, and go to his room on the second floor of their small house, built in 1998 on the edge of the village. The rest of the family chose to live separately with their own households. Not them.It is 5:03 p.m. on March 11, 10 days after the...
