He said another relative who arrived in a bulldozer to try to rescue the family from beneath the rubble had also been killed in the crossfire as clashes broke out on the streets.
Another local also gave Mohamed’s uncle’s name and those of other relatives as he listed people killed in the community.
The Israeli military has not responded to BBC requests for comment.
Locals who were in the village at the time of the military operation, and others who had been staying elsewhere, gathered around the large crater on Saturday to assess the damage and make sense of what had happened.
“They bombed everything. This is crazy,” said Ali Shakur.
“I think they were surprised by who was here because when they bombed they thought that everyone had evacuated.”
Another man in the village said people had evacuated their children but others had stayed, believing that any strikes would be similar to ones they had experienced before.
“Usually they hit two or three houses but [this] was different. It was non-stop. You can see how big it was,” he said. “But we are a resistance here and we resisted.”
A woman walking around the destroyed houses screamed: “Israel is attacking us unjustly. We are Hezbollah and we will prevail.”
The Israeli military said no IDF personnel had been injured in the overnight operation.
It added that it would “continue to operate relentlessly, day and night, out of a deep commitment to bringing all of Israel’s sons, the fallen and the missing, back home”.
But Ron Arad’s widow Tami urged Israel’s leaders not to put IDF soldiers’ lives at risk.
“We understand that our words until now have not been understood by the decision-makers and therefore it’s important for us to clarify: Our desire to know what happened to Ron stops as soon as there is risk to IDF soldiers,” she wrote on Facebook.
“In our eyes, the sanctity of life comes before the commitment to return the remains of a fighter for burial.”
In a separate statement on Saturday, the IDF said overnight strikes in the south of Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley had hit Hezbollah weapons and “military sites belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation”.
It did not respond to BBC requests for comment about the targets of the strikes around Nabi Chit.
Across Lebanon, at least 294 people have been killed by Israeli military action since Monday, according to the health ministry.
In the village, as some grieved, others said they felt victorious after fighting back and discovering Israel had failed to recover the remains.
“They came standing but we made them leave lying down,” one man said.