'It was the end of the world... there were bombs everywhere'

A British woman returning to the UK from Lebanon said Israeli air strikes have killed five members of her family.

Sana Chamseddin clutched her son in her arms in Heathrow Airport on Saturday and spoke of her guilt at leaving behind loved ones in 'unsafe places'. Her uncle, his wife and his three daughters, all in their twenties, were killed when their home in the Lebanese city of Tyre was bombed by the Israel Defence Forces, she said.

Two of the daughters were doctors and one was an engineer who was supposed to get married in 10 days, said Mrs Chamseddin. Mrs Chamseddin and her husband are British citizens, and returned to London with their sons, two-month-old Zien and one-year-old Jawad.

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She broke down in tears as she said: "On Monday morning we wake up as a big bomb (hit) just beside our house, and we saw on the news that they said another round (of attacks) will start in one hour, so we didn't take it seriously because we don't fight, we are normal civilians.

"I was talking with my uncle over WhatsApp, he told me that it's okay, it's not going to bomb him, but we lost the connection when they bombed around us.

"When we arrived after 10 hours on the road we found out that he didn't make it me and my husband feel very guilty to come here (to England) and (leave) our family in unsafe places."

She added her uncle 'was the perfect person, he liked to live and to talk all the time'.

Her husband, biochemical engineer Abbas Chamseddin, showed PA photographs of the family and said: "Look at this smile, this is the future of Lebanon they're killing the future of Lebanon, look at the smile, this is what they kill."

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