Father and Three Children Killed by Israel in Lebanon Had Family in US, Sought US Citizenship

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Father and Three Children Killed by Israel in Lebanon Had Family in US, Sought US CitizenshipShadi Charara, a car dealer from southern Lebanon, had family members living in the US and sought to join them before he was killed along with three of his young children by an Israeli drone strike on Sunday, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The Israeli drone strike was one of thousands of Israeli violations of a ceasefire deal that was signed in November 2024. The IDF has flagrantly violated the deal both by continuing near-daily strikes on Lebanon and continuing its occupation of southern Lebanon by maintaining five military outposts in the area. After the drone strike on Sunday, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, Nabih Berri, said Charara and his children were US citizens, which the US State Department later disputed. Charara’s family clarified to the AP that he did not have citizenship, but his siblings and father live in the United States and are citizens.