Children blasted into the street: Israeli attacks in eastern Lebanon hit civilian homes

Al Jazeera reported that they found the bodies of his landlord’s children blasted into the street after an Israeli air strike in Sohmor, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

They lived above his workshop, where he spray-painted cars.

“The Israeli strike happened at 3:30 in the morning. There was absolutely no reason but Israel’s known for this. … They target civilians and, in some places, children. Here a woman with her daughter and son were killed. Imagine, they were sitting at home thinking they were safe,” Rida told Al Jazeera.

The children’s father is in hospital, blinded by the blast and with both his legs broken by falling rubble. It is uncertain if he’ll survive.

The town’s mayor told Al Jazeera more than 140 houses have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks.

“Most of the people have returned… but they’re worried about the general situation, and all of them are waiting for the negotiations. And the internal situation in Lebanon, we’re urging, needs unity,” Iskandar Barake, the mayor of Sohmor, said.

Down the road, in the town of Mashgara, residential houses were also targeted.

“I had parked the pickup truck here next to my house… and within five minutes, as soon as I went inside. … I felt something in the air, and then there was a very powerful explosion. Everything in my house was blown apart – the glass, the aluminum, the windows,” survivor Mamhoud Ibrahim told Al Jazeera.