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Amnesty International on Thursday demanded a war crimes investigation into Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, which the human rights watchdog described as \u201cwiping out families.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strikes in question took place in March and killed 24 civilians, including 12 children, in neighborhoods in the cities of Tyre, Saida, and Nabatieh.<\/p>\n

Amnesty said it has gathered enough evidence to reasonably conclude that Israeli forces violated international law by failing to distinguish between civilian and military targets when conducting the campaign.<\/p>\n

The human rights group said it reached these conclusions after conducting more than a dozen on-the-ground interviews with survivors, relatives of victims, and paramedics who were called to the scene after the strikes. Additionally, the group analyzed satellite photos along with videos of the strikes posted on social media.<\/p>\n

One survivor, a retired Lebanese man named Hussein Saleh, said that the strike in his neighborhood in Tyre killed his wife, their two children, his sister-in-law and her five-year-old daughter, and two other relatives.<\/p>\n

Moussa Chaalan, a paramedic who arrived on the scene after the attack, told Amnesty \u201cthere was nothing left of the house\u201d when they got there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe body parts were scattered as far as 200 meters away from the impact site,\u201d Chaalan added.<\/p>\n

Mohamad Taqi, 54, told Amnesty that Israel\u2019s strike in the Saida district killed seven family members, including his 78-year-old mother, Zeinab Nasser, and his 12-year-old daughter Zahraa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the bedroom where the missile hit, I couldn\u2019t find a trace of Zeinab and Zahraa,\u201d Taqi said. \u201cThe paramedics later found their body parts and they gathered them. When I lost hope of finding them alive, I went to the hospital. I was injured in my head, eye, and face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kristine Beckerle, deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said the international community needed to impose consequences on Israel for what she described as \u201ca callous disregard for civilian lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin the space of just a week, the Israeli military obliterated entire families, including a dozen children, in Lebanon,\u201d said Beckerle. \u201cHow many more families will have to pull the body parts of their children from the rubble before this devastating cycle of war crimes ends? The international community must act now: states must impose an immediate comprehensive arms embargo on Israel and use universal and extraterritorial jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute those responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beckerle added that the three attacks investigated by Amnesty \u201care part of a well-documented pattern of unlawful Israeli attacks carried out in Lebanon, amidst a total vacuum of accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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