‘I counted seven to eight bombs’ – Irish family trapped in Lebanon describe ‘complete chaos’, call for Government help

Munier Zabad (53), who fled Lebanon for Kilkenny during the war in 2006, told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland the family had returned to Lebanon for his father’s funeral. They were also celebrating his daughter Gadir’s engagement party.

Mr Zabad, his daughter, his wife Ghada and their son Hassan (12) have now fled southern Lebanon for Beirut. After arriving there, Mr Zabad found out his uncle had been killed in the bombing.

“Looking above the mountain, I counted around seven to eight bombs,” he said.

“Five or six in the morning, the bomb was flashing everywhere in front of my eyes. I woke my family, I woke my children, I had all my bags packed in my car.

“My neighbour said to me, ‘it’s nothing, don’t rush, this is normal, they’re just scaring people’.”

After other people told Mr Zabad it was normal, the family went ahead with plans to travel to Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon.

“As soon as we arrived, we saw all the shops are closing, people are running. I said ‘what’s…

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