The victim is Father Gregorius Saloum, parish priest of Ibl al-Saqi, in the south of the country. The priest was seriously injured in yesterday’s attack along with his wife and children. The Christian village of Kfour, near Nabatieh, was also affected, with the local church reporting heavy damage.
Beirut () – Israeli air attacks in southern Lebanon also continue to affect Christians. This afternoon came the news, currently unverifiable, of the death of Father Gregorius Saloum, parish priest of the Greek Orthodox Church of Ibl al-Saqi, in the south of the country. The information was spread on the networks by Quds News Networkalthough there is still no official confirmation of his death. Previously, several sources had said that the priest, who belongs to the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, was “injured.”
In the midst of the continuous succession of rumors, the feeling of deep fear and concern persists among Lebanese Christians, involved in the war between Hezbollah and Israel and the entry into the area, last night, of army troops with the Star of David (IDF) in the scope of a “limited ground operation.” Sources report that Father Gregorius’s wife and children were also wounded in the attack, but so far there are no further details about their conditions. Apparently their house, located on Al Sagi Hill, was hit by a volley of missiles.
What happened to the Orthodox priest is only the latest in a series of attacks and destructions that Lebanese Christians also suffer, in a war that theoretically only involves the Party of God and the Israeli army but that in reality affects the entire population of the Country of the Cedars. Yesterday, in fact, the Christian village of Kfour, near Nabatieh, was also bombed, where serious damage was reported to the local church of Tsahal.
Earlier, Israeli fighters had attacked the village of Aïn el-Delb, near Sidon, in the south of the country. In that area, with a Christian majority, there were 32 confirmed victims and one of them is a Christian woman. Added to these are dozens of injured. A source of He explained that the target of the attack was an expert and top-level Hezbollah fighter, identified by the name of Ahmad Awarki, who was, among other things, apparently “responsible” for the Shiite movement in the city of Sidon. To reach him and make sure they killed him, they did not hesitate to devastate everything and the bursts of missiles brought down an entire building.
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