World · 2026-11-03 · Afternoon briefing
France opens war crimes probe into deadly 2024 Beirut strike
French judges have opened a judicial investigation into a suspected war crime concerning an Israeli air strike in Beirut. The attack in November 2024 destroyed three floors of a 12-storey residential building and killed seven civilians. The probe follows a complaint by Franco-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, whose parents were among the victims.
The strike on the Noueiri district building occurred on November 27th, 2024, roughly 10.5 hours before a ceasefire with Hezbollah was due to begin. An April report by Amnesty International, whose research underpins the French case, found no evidence of a military target in the vicinity and identified fragments of a US-manufactured GBU-39 precision bomb at the site.
This marks the first French judicial investigation into alleged crimes by the Israeli army in Lebanon since October 2023. The same French anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has also initiated probes into the interception of humanitarian flotillas heading to Gaza and requested a war crimes investigation into the 2023 deaths of two French children in Gaza.
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