Israeli strike kills Christian party official in Lebanon

An Israeli strike on an apartment east of Beirut late on Sunday killed a local official from a Christian political party, sharpening internal divides over Hezbollah as Israel's strikes expand to new parts of the country.

The war raging in Lebanon over the past month has deepened fractures between supporters of Hezbollah and those who blame the group for igniting a new war with Israel just 15 months after the last one.

On Sunday, an Israeli strike hit an apartment in Ain Saadeh, a predominantly Christian town in the hills east of Beirut, killing a man and two women, Lebanon's health ministry said. Ain Saadeh's mayor said the victims were one floor below the targeted apartment.

The Lebanese Forces Party, a fiercely anti-Hezbollah Christian party, identified two of the dead as Pierre Moawad, a local party official, and his wife Flavia.

"We are paying a heavy price for a war into which we have been dragged by the lawless organisation Hezbollah," Lebanese Forces parliamentarian Razi El Hage told Lebanese broadcaster MTV.

The head of the Lebanese Forces Center in Yahchouch, Pierre Moawad, and his wife were martyred in the airstrike on Tilal Ain Saadeh. https://t.co/jZfkzOQS50 pic.twitter.com/1yGLOozngz

— Beirut Wire (@beirutwire) April 5, 2026