News Amnesty International found that Israeli forces had no evidence of a verifiable military target at the site of the strike.

November 4, 2026 — 2 min read

Artist Ali Cherri attending the Corps et âmes exhibition at the Pinault Collection's Bourse de Commerce in 2025 in Paris, France (photo Luc Castel/Getty Images)

France's War Crimes Unit has opened an investigation into a deadly Israeli airstrike on French-Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri's family home in Barbour, Beirut. The investigation emerges seven months after the artist filed a complaint accusing Israel of war crimes with the office, as the 2024 strike on the residential building killed both of his parents, the domestic worker they employed in the apartment Cherri owned, and at least four other civilians living in the building.

In a February report on Israeli war crimes in Lebanon, Amnesty International stated that Israeli forces had no evidence of a verifiable military target at the site of the strike, and concluded that Israeli…