Truthout: Human Rights Watch: Israel Used US Weapon in Likely War Crime in Lebanon

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Truthout - Human Rights Watch: Israel Used US Weapon in Likely War Crime in Lebanon

One strike killed 22 members of the same family, with three young boys surviving the attack.

By Sharon Zhang , Truthout
Published April 24, 2025



Israeli forces used at least one U.S.-provided weapon in a series of strikes that killed dozens of civilians in northeastern Lebanon last year, in attacks that were likely in violation of international law and should be investigated as war crimes, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.

The group investigated several Israeli strikes between September 25 and November 21, 2024 in Younine, near Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon, where Israeli forces had been carrying out numerous attacks amid its escalation against Hezbollah and Lebanon last year.

Two of these strikes killed 33 civilians, including 15 children, in total, the group found. The strikes came on residential buildings without any combatants or other military targets.

One bombing, on September 25, killed 22 members of one family, from Syria. Part of the family was leaving for Syria the next day, so the family was gathered in the building to say goodbye, according to one child survivor of the attack. Three children in the family survived the strike, which killed their parents, siblings, grandfather, and uncles, Human Rights Watch researchers found.

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1. Good thing they voted dump in, he's such a humanitarian .

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2. Ah yes, I remember all the hate some directed at Joe Biden

even though he urged Israel to caution and restraint. They must have known Trump wouldn't give a good god-damn about this but still they criticized Uncle Joe for not being forceful enough.

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3. Who's 'they'? If it's the Palestinian victims of Israel, they can't vote in US elections...

I find two things extremely irritating. One is those who either didn't vote or voted for Trump out of a misguided sense of protesting against the Biden administrations lacklustre opposition to what Israel was doing. The second is those who enter conversations about Gaza, don't have a thing to say about the death and destruction, and trot out the tedious and repetitive and sometimes just downright incorrect claims that university protesters and/or Muslim Americans and/or young people (there can be intersectionality between those groups) were responsible for Trump winning. Not saying yr doing that, but there's a few frequent fliers in threads about Gaza in GD I see doing it a lot and it's stupid. Late Friday arvo vent done