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On Monday, 23rd September 2024, 14 civilians, including six women and seven children across two families were killed when an alleged Israeli bombardment hit the town of Jabal al-Batm in the Al-Batm mountains in Southern Lebanon. The families were sheltering together in one house when they were killed.
Twitter user @mhanna611 reported the incident in a post that read “14 people from my village, #Jabal_Al_Batam, were martyred” when the strike hit. The post further explained that “Two entire families, most of them women and children, were in one house and were killed.” A video shared alongside the post depicted the bombing of the town in South Lebanon and the aftermath. Debris lined the streets and multi-story houses were depicted in ruins.
In a post made on Facebook at 6.22 pm, news outlet Bint Jbeil reported the death of two young women killed “with their families” in the strike that hit the Al-Batam Mountains, identifying them as 23-year-old Rayhana Hassan Eidibii and 22-year-old Nour al-Huda Hassan Eidibii. The two young women were killed alongside their family – their sisters, the children Ramla Hassan Eidibii and Latifa Hassan Eidibii, 24-year-old Fatima Hassan Eidibii, and their parents, their mother Rima Balhasi and their father Hassan Ahmed Eidibi.
In a photo shared alongside the post, Rayhana is depicted in academic dress with a black gown, cap, and blue sash. Nour is depicted as a young woman sitting under trees on a bench, and she wears blue jeans, a green tunic, and a colourful green and white silk headscarf.
Facebook user Nadia Bakria mourned the family’s death, sharing a photo collage depicting the family in four photos. In one photo Rima is depicted as an older woman in a black hijab taking a selfie in front of a crowd. In another, Hassan is depicted as an older man in a black jacket waving at the camera. In another photo, their five young daughters are depicted grouped together smiling at the camera.
The second family killed in the attack was identified by friends and family on social media. In a post made on the Islamic University of Lebanon student Facebook group, Dida Akil mourned the death of his colleague, 22-year-old Nesreen Ali Eidibi. In a photo shared alongside the post, she is depicted as a young woman wearing a black hijab and a dark blue suit jacket and trousers. She was killed alongside her 20-year-old sister Nadine Ali Eidibii and brother Hassan Ali Eidibii (child), and the children Ali Abbas Eidibi, Celine Abbas Eidibii, Fadl Abbas Eidibii, and Adam Abbas Eidibi.
In a photo collage shared on social media, the fourteen victims, including the seven children and six women who were killed in the attack, are depicted alongside one another. In a Facebook post shared by Hachem Hussein, the photo is used on a bereavement poster mourning the deaths of the victims.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (7)
Family members (7)
Geolocation notes (2) [ collapse]
Reports of the incident mention a residential building being struck in the town of Jabal al-Batm (جبال البطم) in the Tyre District (قضاء صور). Analysing visual material from sources we have narrowed down the location to these exact coordinates: 33.174330, 35.291685.
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