By Andrew Mitrovica
Canadian citizens Hussein and Daad Tabaja were killed in an Israeli air strike on their car in Lebanon on September 23, 2024 [Courtesy of the Tabaja family]
Kamal Tabaja and his two younger brothers and three sisters meet online every day to comfort one another.
Together, they are grieving the sudden, violent deaths on September 23 of their parents, 74-year-old Hussein and 69-year-old Daad Tabaja, who celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary this past April.
“They were always together,” Kamal says. “They were good people who lived by their values – generosity, humility and charity.”
Hussein and Daad Tabaja are among the thousands of civilians Israel has killed in Lebanon during the past few weeks as it turns its lethal sights on another target.
The Canadian family’s pain is still raw. During my interview with him, Kamal, a Bahrain-based reinsurance broker, had to pause from time to time to compose himself as he answered questions about who his parents were and how they died.
There is a palpable anger, too, aimed at the Canadian government for failing to hold Israel to any tangible measure of account for the killing of two of its citizens.
Source: Aljazeera
