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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sarah El Deeb

A Lebanese family planning for a daughter's wedding is killed in an Israeli strike on their home

Lebanon-Civilian Casualties-Family - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The family WhatsApp group chat buzzed with constant messages. Israel was escalating its airstrikes on villages and towns in southern Lebanon. Everyone was glued to the news.

Reda Gharib woke up uncharacteristically early that day, Sept. 23. Living a continent away in Senegal, he scrolled through videos and pictures shared by his sisters and aunts of explosions around their neighborhood in Tyre, Lebanon’s ancient coastal city.

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