BEIRUT: When Lebanon holds its Parliamentary election soon, almost one-fourth of the 128 seats are expected to be passed on from an older relative to another member of the family. Nineteen candidates are attempting to inherit the seats of their parents.
They are:
1. Nezar Mohsen Dalloul (Shiite) for Zahle district in Central Bekaa
2. Ziad Nazem Al-Qadery (Sunni) for Western Bekaa and Rashaya
3. Ali Sabri Bek Hmadeh (Shiite) for Baalbeck – Hermel
4. Amin Edmond Rizk (Greek Catholic) for Jezzine in South Lebanon
5. Abdulrahman Nazih Al-Bizri (Sunni) for Saida district in South Lebanon
6. Ahmed Mouhammed Kamel Al-Assaad (Shiite) for Nabatiyeh district
7. Riad Saeed Al-Assaad (Shiite) for Zahrani district in South Lebanon
8. Fadi Issam Abou Jamra (Greek Orthodox) for Marjayoun and Hasbayya district
9. Walid Wajeeh Al-Baarini (Sunni) for Akkar district in North Lebanon
10. Mohammed Tareq Talal Al-Maraabi (Sunni) for Akkar district
11.Sami Ahmad Shawki Fatfat (Sunni) for Al-Danniyeh district in North Lebanon
12.Michel René Mouawwad (Maronite) for Zgharta district
13.Tony Suleiman Frangieh for Zgharta
14.Michelle Gebran Tueni (Greek Orthodox) for Beirut
15.Nadim Bachir Gemayel (Maronite) for Beirut
16.Omar Najah Wakim (Greek Orthodox) for Beirut
17.Zaher Walid Eido (Sunni) for Baabda district in Mount Lebanon
18.Taymour Walid Jumblatt (Druze) For the Shouf district in Mount Lebanon
19.Camille Michel Dory Chamoun (Maronite) for Al-Shouf district in Mount Lebanon.
All in the family: Lebanese politicians seeking to inherit their parents’ seats
All in the family: Lebanese politicians seeking to inherit their parents’ seats
US lawmakers press Israel to probe strike on reporters in Lebanon
- “The IDF has made no effort, none, to seriously investigate this incident,” Welch said
- Collins called for Washington to publicly acknowledge the attack in which an American citizen was injured
WASHINGTON: Several Democratic lawmakers called Thursday for the Israeli and US governments to fully investigate a deadly 2023 attack by the Israeli military on journalists in southern Lebanon.
The October 13, 2023 airstrike killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and wounded six other reporters, including two from AFP — video journalist Dylan Collins and photographer Christina Assi, who lost her leg.
“We expect the Israeli government to conduct an investigation that meets the international standards and to hold accountable those people who did this,” Senator Peter Welch told a news conference, with Collins by his side.
The lawmaker from Collins’s home state of Vermont said he had been pushing for answers for two years, first from the administration of Democratic president Joe Biden and now from the Republican White House of Donald Trump.
The Israeli government has “stonewalled at every single turn,” Welch added.
“With the Israeli government, we have been extremely patient, and we have done everything we reasonably can to obtain answers and accountability,” he said.
“The IDF has made no effort, none, to seriously investigate this incident,” Welch said, referring to the Israeli military, adding that it has told his office its investigation into the incident is closed.
Collins called for Washington to publicly acknowledge the attack in which an American citizen was injured.
“But I’d also like them to put pressure on their greatest ally in the Middle East, the Israeli government, to bring the perpetrators to account,” he said, echoing the lawmakers who called the attack a “war crime.”
“We’re not letting it go,” Vermont congresswoman Becca Balint said. “It doesn’t matter how long they stonewall us.”
AFP conducted an independent investigation which concluded that two Israeli 120mm tank shells were fired from the Jordeikh area in Israel.
The findings were corroborated by other international probes, including investigations conducted by Reuters, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders.
Unlike Welch’s assertion Thursday that the Israeli probe was over, the IDF told AFP in October that “findings regarding the event have not yet been concluded.”
