By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-02 08:13:27 | Updated at 2024-10-02 10:25:37
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Qassem al-Qadhi left his home in east Lebanon this weekend to buy bread for 17 family members, but when he returned they were all dead.
An Israeli air strike on Sunday hit the village of Zabboud in the Bekaa valley, killing a whole family, the national news agency NNA said.
Qadhi said it was his wife, children and grandchildren. They were killed in an instant.
The 57-year-old says the only member of the family who survived was his 25-year-old son Hussein, who had headed off to do his military service just before the strike.
“It was 11am. We were all sitting in front of the house and then I went to buy them bread,” he told Agence France-Presse by phone.
While he was at the bakery he heard a loud explosion, he said.
