US EditionWar crimes complaint filed in France over a deadly Israeli strike in Beirut
The filing says the strike killed 7 civilians and may qualify as a war crime under French and international law.
- On Thursday, Lebanese-French artist Ali Cherri and the International Federation for Human Rights filed a war crimes complaint in France concerning an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on November 26, 2024, that killed seven civilians.
- The November strike in the Noueiri neighborhood killed Cherri's parents, Mahmoud Naim Cherri and Nadira Hayek, alongside their domestic worker, Birki Negesa, which the group asserts violates international humanitarian law mandating distinction between military and civilian targets.
- French courts hold jurisdiction because Cherri owned the targeted apartment, while the complaint relies on digital reconstruction by Forensic Architecture and documentation from Amnesty International, which found no evidence of a military objective.
- FIDH described the killings as part of a larger pattern involving 4,300 civilian deaths in Lebanon, while Cherri stated, "It's going to be a long process, and probably with no cooperation from the Israelis," emphasizing the need to stop impunity.
- No legal proceedings regarding the attack have been initiated in Lebanon or abroad, and Israel's military, which did not immediately respond to the filing, has previously stated it follows international legal norms and strikes only legitimate military targets.
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Lebanese Artist Accuses Israel of War Crime for Strike That Killed His Parents
Paris-based Lebanese filmmaker and artist Ali Cherri has formally accused the Israeli military of committing a war crime for a bombing that killed his parents inside their Beirut apartment in 2024.In the hours before a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel was set to take effect on November 26, 2024, Cherri’s parents, Mahmoud Naim Cherri and Nadira Hayek, were killed by an Israeli bomb that struck their 12-story residential building. The strike…
Lebanese artist files complaint in France against Israeli strike
Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri is filing a civil complaint at a French war crimes unit alongside the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) over an Israeli strike on a building in central Beirut dating back to November 2024. The bombing killed a number of Lebanese civilians, including his parents. On 26 November 2024, one day before Israel and Hezbollah reached a ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces struck the Cherri family bu…
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War crimes complaint filed in France over a deadly Israeli strike in Beirut
A French-Lebanese artist and the International Federation for Human Rights say they have filed a complaint in France seeking a war crimes investigation into an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beirut in November 2024.
Lebanon Artist Ali Cherri Files War Crime Complaint Over Beirut Strike
Lebanese-French artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri and the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have filed a war crime complaint in France related to the killing of his parents in 2024 in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Cherri, who divides his time between Paris and Beirut, is one of Lebanon’s best-known contemporary artists, whose […]
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