What do we know about the bombing that killed 27 people near Byblos in Lebanon? – Liberation

In a Christian region of North Lebanon, 27 people including 7 children died in an Israeli strike on Sunday November 10. The unprecedented operation raises as many questions as concerns.

Since October 8, 2023 and the start of the exchanges of fire launched by Hezbollah with the Israeli army, the small village of Aalmat has never had to undergo bombings. It was even here, in this locality where a Shiite minority from the Christian region of Byblos lives, that many Lebanese had taken refuge fleeing the Israeli air force. Since September, the coastal region of North Lebanon has welcomed some of the 1.4 million people displaced by the war, who escaped from the south of the country or the Bekaa plain.

However, this Sunday, November 10 in Aalmat, at least 27 people were killed in an Israeli strike on an old house in the village. Civilians, including 7 children, according to a provisional report communicated by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The house, according to several local media, belonged to a notable personality in the village – judge Zeina Haider Ahmed, several residents report – and had been rented to displaced families from Baalbek.

Targeted assassination attempt

The Israeli army has not yet communicated on the motives