Shock, grief as Israeli Lebanon strike kills 10 Syrians

WADI ALKAFUR, LEBANON   -   Sobbing relatives thronged Sheikh Ragheb Hospital Saturday after an Israeli air strike killed 10 Syrians, including two children, who had escaped war at home only to die in south Leb­anon. The early morning strike hit a building in the Wadi al-Kaf­ur area of Nabatieh, killing the 10 including a mother and her two children, Lebanon’s health min­istry said. Israel’s military said aircraft had struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility. At the hospital, relatives and friends of the victims expressed shock and anger at their sudden deaths, with women dressed in black weeping and wailing.

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