Israel kills seven Canadians

Israel has bombed and killed seven Canadians who were vacationing in southern Lebanon:

Seven Canadians are dead, six of them possibly members of the same Montreal family, after an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. Three more were seriously injured.

The Department of Foreign Affairs did not release their names.

However, reports said the dead included a family of four children, their mother, and her husband’s uncle. They were vacationing in Aitarun, just 50 kilometres south of Beirut.

Israel’s reckless escalation of the conflict has now cost the lives of more than 100 civilians in Lebanon, including an estimated thirteen people who fled their village after Israeli loudspeaker warnings urged them to do so:

In one attack, apparently on vehicles full of families trying to get away from the bombing, an estimated 13 people, including eight children, died when a truck and a car were incinerated by an Israeli air attack.

The small convoy was carrying people evacuating the village of Marwaheen after Israeli loudspeaker warnings to leave their homes. Seven of the dead were from a single family, according to eye-witnesses including a photographer from the Associated Press, Nasser Nasser, whose pictures show bodies, including a baby, scattered on the road.