Overview
- Ali Cherri and the International Federation for Human Rights filed the complaint Thursday with France’s War Crimes Unit, targeting the November 26, 2024 bombing of a Noueiri apartment block that killed seven people and destroyed several floors.
- The filing argues the strike on a residential building could be a war crime under French and international law, citing Amnesty’s finding of no military target nearby and no effective warning to civilians.
- Forensic Architecture reconstructed the blast using satellite images, witness accounts, and video, and reported identifying remnants of a GBU-39 munition widely documented as used by Israel’s air force.
- FIDH says French jurisdiction flows from Cherri’s French nationality and his ownership of the bombed apartment, not the killings of his non-French parents.
- The case lands as fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has surged since early March, with Lebanese authorities reporting more than 1,200 dead and over a million displaced, and photographer Mohamad Shehab—who documented the apartment—killed in a March 11 strike.