‘They were amazing people’: Canadian man remembers parents killed in Lebanon [Video]

Global Affairs Canada said late Tuesday that it had been “informed of the deaths of two Canadian citizens” but has not yet confirmed their identities or released further details.

Kamal said his parents immigrated to Canada in 1996 and became Canadian citizens three years later. The two lived in Ottawa for a time and had been living in Lebanon for the last five years.

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have fled their homes and hospitals have filled with the wounded since Israel intensified bombing on Monday, when more than 550 people were killed in Lebanon’s deadliest day since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war.