People carry the coffins of Pierre Moawad, a Lebanese Forces party official, and his wife Flavia, killed in an Israeli airstrike on their apartment Sunday night in Ain Saade, east of Beirut. Lebanon, April 7, 2026. (Credit: Tea Ziade/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced on Tuesday that the person who was seen driving a motorcycle away from the building in Ain Saade, Metn, before Monday’s Israeli airstrike is "a delivery worker who had been delivering medications to residents of one of the apartments over the past months."
The army emphasized, in its statement, that it is “continuing investigations to uncover the circumstances of the attack” and called on the public to “refrain from speculation on sensitive security matters, which could lead to internal tension.”
The unprecedented Israeli attack on the predominantly Christian area killed three people: local Lebanese Forces (LF) official Pierre Moawad, his wife, Flavia, and their neighbor. The target of the strike remains unclear.
Ahead of Moawad's funeral, multiple processions passed through Burj Hammoud on Beirut’s northern outskirts. While the LF had called for supporters to attend the funeral in Yahshoush, Kesrouan, at 4 p.m., party officials urged followers “not to be drawn into impulsive reactions” and to allow “the security forces [to] handle the matter.”
On Tuesday, the army had said the apartment had not been rented to anyone at the time of the strike.
On Monday, Gaelle Moawad, the daughter of the couple killed, shared with reporters an account she said came from her father’s close friends.
She claimed that two days before the attack, her father spoke with Michel Ibrahim, the owner of the destroyed third-floor apartment, about a “stranger” in the building named “Abdallah Ibrahim.”
Ibrahim reportedly told Moawad that the man was his cousin. “It was later discovered his name is Mohammad,” Gaelle told journalists.
She said the man allegedly came to drop off money and then left on a motorcycle immediately after the strike. She added that the owner's sister lived in the apartment, and that rumors that it was vacant were not true.
Reached by phone by L'Orient Today, Ibrahim confirmed that his sister, Lara, lived in the apartment but insisted it “was never rented out.”
“I don’t know any Abdallah Ibrahim,” he said.
Lara Ibrahim, a nurse, told L’Orient Today that she lived in the apartment and that it was never rented to anyone else. “Why would my brother rent it out if I live there?” she asked. At the time of the attack, she was in Kfour, in the Kesrouan district.
