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Israeli air strike kills 13 members of 1 family in Sidon

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Residents and rescue teams inspect the damage following an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Ain al-Helweh camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon early on October 1, 2024 [MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images]

An Israeli air strike has killed 13 members of one family in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon.

A Lebanese security source said Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike on the town of Tefahta in Sidon district, targeting the home of a martyr who had been killed in an earlier strike.

The source said while mourners were paying their respect to the family when an Israeli warplane struck the location killing 13 members of the same family.

According to the source, this is the second massacre carried out by Israel in less than 48 hours in the same neighbourhood after an air strike killed four people two days ago.

He added that yesterday evening, Israeli warplanes launched a series of air strikes targeting the towns of Shebaa, Tebnine, Shaqra, Qabrikha and Al-Sawaneh and Al-Sawaneh in the south.

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