Lebanese-French artist and filmmaker Ali Cherri and the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have filed a war crime complaint in France related to the killing of his parents in 2024 in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
Cherri, who divides his time between Paris and Beirut, is one of Lebanon’s best-known contemporary artists, whose work has shown at the Guggenheim, Tate Modern and the Jeu de Paume among many other galleries, while his first feature The Dam premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2023.
His official complaint has been lodged with the judges of the French War Crimes Unit and concerns Israel’s bombing of a residential building in Beirut on November 26 2024, which killed seven civilians.
The strike destroyed three floors of the apartment block with Cherri’s father and mother, Mahmoud Naim Cherri and Nadira Hayek, as well as a domestic worker employed by the
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