Airwars assessment
On the morning of 25th September 2024 at 11am, six people were reported killed and a large number of others were injured in an airstrike allegedly carried out by the Israeli military on a residential home and apparent ammunition depot in the Deir al-Mukhlis area of the town of Joun in southern Lebanon.
Though four people were initially reported as killed, later posts on social media named six dead: Amna Jafal and her two children Mojtaba Akhdar and Sakina Akhdar, and Syrian nationals Arej Abdul Rahim Maruf Batoz and her two children Qusai Batoz and Rital Batoz. Information on the wounded – beyond a single report from @PalTodayBRK, which mentioned a “large number of wounded” – was not made available.
Friends and family of the victims shared photos and tributes to the deceased on social media. Hawraa Zein posted a picture of Amna and her two children at a celebration on Facebook, whilst Saffah Fida shared pictures of Qusai and Rital Batoz posing for the camera together, mourning the death of her ‘friend’ and ‘sister’ as well as her children, now ‘birds of paradise’. In a tribute to Arej and her children, Facebook user Silver Saffah wrote that the two children had been studying French and Arabic at school, whilst speaking a third language, Aramaic, at home. She also described the grief of the family’s grandfather Abu Marouf at the loss of his family, saying that ‘the sadness that lives in his heart is deeper than smiles can hide’. Silver Saffah explained that Arej’s husband came home to find ‘his house destroyed’ and his family ‘gone forever’. The family were to be buried in the Syrian town of Maaloula, where they were originally from. Saffah decried the lack of care in how media sources spoke of the family: ‘The media talked about them as a “Syrian family,” as if they were just a number on a daily news list. No names to mention, no stories to tell, no faces to immortalize’.
Many others in the local community also mourned the victims’ deaths. Deir al-Mukhlis Secondary School wrote in a Facebook post that its two students Qusai and Sakina, along with their mother were now ‘angels in the sky’. Ali Sabbah wrote that Mojtaba and Sakina Akhdar were ‘angels amongst the students’, and that he had been ‘unable to stop crying’ since learning of his two students’ deaths. Bouchra Koubeissy wrote that Sakina’s ‘smile filled the school, and her absence means the pain never leaves us’. Al-Janoub football club posted a picture of Mojtaba holding a certificate and wearing a medal, calling him a ‘special and distinguished player’.
Images posted by multiple sources show Mojtaba in what appears to be a uniform for the Imam al-Mahdi Scout group, a Hezbollah-affiliated scouting organisation that is registered with the Lebanese Scouting Federation. Mojtaba and his sister are also pictured holding up images of General Soleimani. As this affiliation does not necessarily indicate militant status, all victims have been counted as civilians.
A Facebook post from Riyadh Ahmed Qazmouz mentioned that the strikes in the Deir al-Mukhlis area struck a home and an ammunition depot.
Where sources mentioned a belligerent, all deemed the Israeli military responsible.
The incident occured at 11:00:00 local time.
The victims were named as:
Family members (3)
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