Lebanese say IDF strike killed man with son and daughter in their car after university exams

Lebanese official media says an Israeli strike yesterday killed a man, his son and daughter in the country’s south, while a local priest tells AFP they were returning from taking university exams.

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) says the man, a dentist from the border village of Qlayaa, “was killed with his son and daughter when a enemy drone targeted his car on the Nabatieh-Khardali road.” Father Antonios Farah, a priest for the Qlayaa parish where some people are still holding out despite sweeping Israeli evacuation orders to leave, tells AFP that the man had been returning home with his son and daughter, both in their early 20s, after they took university exams.

“The man and his two children went to the university in the morning so they could do their examinations, and on their way back the Israeli drone hit their car,” he says. “We don’t understand why this happened,” he says, adding that a bible and prayer book were found in the heavily damaged car.

“He’s a dentist and his children are university students… this is extremely sad news for the village, everyone is suffering,” he adds.