{"id":64214,"date":"2026-04-12T21:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:05:44","slug":"israeli-bombardment-kills-infant-in-lebanon-during-fathers-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64214\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli bombardment kills infant in Lebanon during father\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wrapped in bloodied bandages, seven-year-old Aline Saeed 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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The strike on the Saeed family home in the village of Srifa took place on Wednesday, the first day \u200cof a US-Iran ceasefire that many in Lebanon hoped would apply to their country, too. Instead, Israeli strikes killed more than 350 across Lebanon and left the Saeed family with four more relatives to bury.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\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 \u2026 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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Sunday, he joined other relatives in the southern port city of Tyre to pick up the \u2060bodies wrapped in green cloth. One of them, a fraction the size of the rest, contained his granddaughter Taleen, Aline\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She had not yet turned two.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tents of internally displaced people line a makeshift camp in the waterfront area of Beirut, Lebanon, amid Israel\u2019s bombardment, on April 4. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/211f7b92-142c-404c-8fb5-fdc680e0dcce_229b55a7.jpg\" title=\"Tents of internally displaced people line a makeshift camp in the waterfront area of Beirut, Lebanon, amid Israel\u2019s bombardment, on April 4. Photo: EPA\"\/>Tents of internally displaced people line a makeshift camp in the waterfront area of Beirut, Lebanon, amid Israel\u2019s bombardment, on April 4. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With \u200cbandages 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrapped in bloodied bandages, seven-year-old Aline Saeed barely survived the Israeli strike on her home in south Lebanon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[24231,24234,24230,24238,100,34,37,24236,93,24235,24233,24232,23886,351,24237],"class_list":["post-64214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-aline-saeed","tag-christina-fincher","tag-dr-abbas-attiyeh","tag-gavin-jones","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jabal-amel-hospital","tag-lebanon","tag-maya-gebeily","tag-mohammed-nazzal","tag-nasser-saeed","tag-pope-leo","tag-reuters","tag-srifa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116393772515054039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64214","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=64214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}