On June 2, 2026, an Israeli drone struck a car on the road linking Marjayoun with Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon, killing James Karam, a dentist from the nearby Christian town of Qlayaa, along with his daughter and son. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported the strike. Karam and his children were not combatants. They were Christians living in a village that had nothing to do with Hezbollah or its war with Israel, a war that was started without their consent and waged, in part, from their doorstep.
Qlayaa is a Maronite village. Maronites are Eastern Catholics in full communion with Rome and the largest Christian denomination in Lebanon. They trace their origin to the late 4th century, when a group of disciples gathered around the charismatic figure of the monk Saint Maron. As Islamic empires expanded, they retreated into the rugged mountains of Lebanon, carving villages into stone and transforming caves into chapels, where they survived in isolation for centuries. They have maintained a presence in Lebanon for roughly 1,600 years, and their patriarch secured the founding of the Lebanese state under the French Mandate in 1920.
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