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Ibrahim Bazzi died in Bint Jbeil alongside his wife, Shorouq Hammoud, who had a visa to settle in Sydney, and his brother Ali, Comanchero and an alleged Hezbollah fighter.
The Associated Press news agency filed pictures from the town of Bint Jbeil showing the funeral, with coffins draped in Hezbollah flags.
Mark Dreyfus said the government was “aware of the announcement made by Hezbollah claiming links to one of the Australians killed”, but was still “seeking to establish the facts”.
“We are continuing to make inquiries but, I repeat, Hezbollah is a listed terrorist organisation under Australian law,” he said.
“It is an offence for any Australian to cooperate with [or] to support, let alone to fight with, a listed terrorist organisation like Hezbollah.”
Regional media have reported further detail about the deaths.
“They were in their homes,” a medic who works with the civil defence in southern Lebanon told the National, an English-language United Arab Emirates-based news outlet.
He said there were no signs of fighting nearby before the strike.
The Israeli military said it had been striking Hezbollah targets based in Lebanon in response to what it says are rockets and missiles being fired into northern Israel by the militant group.
www.abc.net.au
The Associated Press news agency filed pictures from the town of Bint Jbeil showing the funeral, with coffins draped in Hezbollah flags.
Mark Dreyfus said the government was “aware of the announcement made by Hezbollah claiming links to one of the Australians killed”, but was still “seeking to establish the facts”.
“We are continuing to make inquiries but, I repeat, Hezbollah is a listed terrorist organisation under Australian law,” he said.
“It is an offence for any Australian to cooperate with [or] to support, let alone to fight with, a listed terrorist organisation like Hezbollah.”
Regional media have reported further detail about the deaths.
“They were in their homes,” a medic who works with the civil defence in southern Lebanon told the National, an English-language United Arab Emirates-based news outlet.
He said there were no signs of fighting nearby before the strike.
The Israeli military said it had been striking Hezbollah targets based in Lebanon in response to what it says are rockets and missiles being fired into northern Israel by the militant group.
Military-style funeral held for Australian 'Hezbollah fighter' killed by Israeli air strike in Lebanon
Australian man Ali Bazzi, who Hezbollah said was a fighter, and his brother Ibrahim, along with Ibrahim's wife Shorouk Hammoud, died when the explosion levelled a family-owned home in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.
www.abc.net.au
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