{"id":63844,"date":"2026-04-12T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63844\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:21:16","slug":"israeli-air-strike-kills-infant-girl-during-fathers-funeral-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63844\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli air strike kills infant girl during father\u2019s funeral in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Relatives arrive for the funeral service of four members of the Saeed family at the Al Kharab mosque in Tyre, Lebanon on Sunday.Louisa Gouliamaki\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, seven, barely survived the Israeli strike on her home in south Lebanon last week. She was there to bury her father as hopes of a truce spread across the region, but a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives.<\/p>\n

The strike on the Saeed family home in the village of Srifa took place on Wednesday, the first day of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire that many in Lebanon hoped would apply to their country, too. Instead, Israeli strikes<\/a> killed more than 350 across Lebanon and left the Saeed family with four more relatives to bury.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said it was a ceasefire. Like all these people, we went up to the village. We went to the casket to read the prayers and walk home… suddenly we felt like a storm was landing right on us,\u201d said Nasser Saeed, Aline\u2019s 64-year-old grandfather, who also survived.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he joined other relatives in the southern port city of Tyre to pick up the bodies wrapped in green cloth. One of them, a fraction the size of the rest, contained his granddaughter Taleen, Aline\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n

She had not yet turned two.<\/p>\n

With bandages to his head and right hand and scratches on his face, Saeed mourned in silence as the women around him turned their faces up to the sky and screamed in agony.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said that it did not have enough details to look into the incident, adding that it takes measures to reduce harm to civilians in its strikes against Hezbollah militants.<\/p>\n

For many civilians in the Middle East, missile attacks come without shelter or warning<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest war in Lebanon began on March 2, when Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired onto Israeli positions in support of its patron Iran.<\/p>\n

Israel has since escalated its air and ground campaign in the country where its operations have killed more than 2,000 people, including 165 children and nearly 250 women.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo on Sunday said how close he felt to the \u201cbeloved Lebanese people\u201d and called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

In his weekly address to the faithful in St. Peter\u2019s Square the pope said there was \u201ca moral obligation to protect the civilian population from the horrific effects of war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday was one of the deadliest days in Lebanon\u2019s recent history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t humanity. This is a war crime,\u201d Saeed told Reuters at the hospital where Aline\u2019s mother, Ghinwa, was still being treated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are the human rights? If a child \u2013 a child! \u2013 is wounded in Israel, the whole world jumps up. Are we not people? Are we not humans? We\u2019re like them!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Taleen was born in 2024, in the last round of fierce clashes between Hezbollah and Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was born in the war and died in the war,\u201d said Mohammed Nazzal, Ghinwa\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

Canada condemns Israeli strikes in Lebanon, calls on Hezbollah to disarm and seek diplomatic solution<\/a><\/p>\n

Iran wants a ceasefire for Lebanon as part of talks with the United States, which concluded on Sunday without a breakthrough. But Israel wants to pursue talks with Lebanese officials through a separate track.<\/p>\n

Heavy bombardment on Lebanon has continued, with nearly 100 people killed on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Dr. Abbas Attiyeh, head of emergency operations at Tyre\u2019s Jabal Amel hospital, said last week\u2019s bombardment was one of the heaviest in recent years and many of the patients arriving at his hospital were children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenges we\u2019re facing now are the numbers of wounded that come at the same time, within the same 30 minutes or hour,\u201d Attiyeh told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Relatives arrive for the funeral service of four members of the Saeed family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[950,936,951,158,928,952,949,927,942,943,939,929,926,147,948,703,941,934,963,930,931,394,93,937,938,674,953,345,958,959,961,956,960,954,957,932,945,946,81,944,955,935,947,462,940,933,82,962],"class_list":{"0":"post-63844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-lebanon","31":"tag-life-news","32":"tag-lifestyle","33":"tag-local-news","34":"tag-manitoba","35":"tag-national-news","36":"tag-new-brunswick","37":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}