In a statement sent to CTV News on Tuesday, Global Affairs Canada also said it had received a request for consular assistance related to “recent injuries sustained during the attacks.”
This text is a translation from CTV News.
Although Global Affairs Canada has not released the identities of the victims, CTV News has learned that the two dead are Hussein and Daad Tabaja, a couple who lived in a house in southern Lebanon .
“It’s terrible for the family,” Kamal Tabaja told CTV News. “I don’t know how to explain it, it’s a nightmare. “
In an interview with CTV News, Mr. Tabaja said that his parents were trying to leave their home and were stuck in heavy traffic when they were attacked by an airstrike. Members of the family tried to find them for hours, and Mr Tabaja says their burnt BMW was finally found in a ditch.
He said that the bodies of his parents were badly burned, but that his mother’s watch was found inside the vehicle.
While the Israeli forces had warned the residents of southern Lebanon to leave before the airstrikes escalated, Mr. Tabaja says that people like his parents did not have enough time.
“They bombed the roads,” mourns the son of the victims. “They bombed people who had nothing to do with this conflict.”
The Israeli military said on Tuesday morning that 55 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, causing fires and damaging buildings.
Army officials said they carried out dozens of airstrikes on Hezbollah targets, including a cell that fired rockets overnight.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said strikes since Monday have killed at least 558 people, including 50 children and 94 women, and injured more than 1,800 people. This is a heavy toll for a country still reeling from last week’s deadly attack on communications equipment.
-With information from CTV News and the Associated Press
2024-09-25 02:21:49
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