Four members of a Lebanese family with U.S. ties — including three children and their father — were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon over the weekend that left a total of five people dead, according to relatives.

Shadi Charara, a car dealer, was killed while driving home to the southern seaside city of Tyre on Sunday with his wife and four children after having lunch at his father-in-law's house in the town of Bint Jbeil, a few miles from the border with Israel.

The Israeli military has acknowledged carrying out the strike, saying in a statement that it had been targeting a Hezbollah militant, whom it did not name, and that he "operated from within a civilian population."

Sam Bazzi, the children's maternal grandfather, told The Associated Press the family thought they wer

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