Global Affairs Canada (GAC) confirmed late Tuesday evening that two Canadians were among those killed in southern Lebanon in a recent airstrike.
GAC has not confirmed their identities due to privacy reasons, but family members told CTV News the two Canadians killed were Hussein and Daad Tabaja, who had previously lived in Ottawa before moving back to Lebanon to be closer to family.
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“It’s devastating for the family,” the couple’s son, Kamal Tabaja, told CTV National News. “I don’t know what you want to call it, it’s like a dark dream.”
“I believe they are in a good place. They will be watching over us.”
Tabaja says his parents were trying to flee southern Lebanon but were stuck in traffic for hours. That’s when they were among those killed in an airstrike.
He says family …