{"id":47392,"date":"2026-04-12T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=47392"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:04:46","slug":"israeli-strike-kills-infant-girl-in-south-lebanon-during-fathers-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=47392","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, seven, barely survived the \u200bIsraeli strike on her home in south Lebanon last week. She was there to bury her father as hopes of \u200ca 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 US-Iran ceasefire that many in Lebanon hoped would apply to their country, too. Instead, Israeli strikes killed more than 350 \u200bacross Lebanon and left the Saeed family with four more relatives to bury.<\/p>\n

“They said it was a ceasefire. Like all these \u200bpeople, we went up to the village. We went to the casket to read the prayers and walk home … \u2060suddenly we felt like a storm was landing right on us,” said Nasser Saeed, Aline’s 64-year-old grandfather, who also survived.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he joined \u200bother relatives in the southern port city of Tyre to pick up the bodies wrapped in green cloth. One of them, a fraction the size \u200bof the rest, contained his granddaughter Taleen, Aline’s 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 \u200bthat it takes measures to reduce harm to civilians in its strikes against Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Taleen \u2018born in war and died in war\u2019<\/p>\n

The latest war in Lebanon \u200bbegan on March 2, when Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired on Israeli positions in support of its patron Iran.<\/p>\n

Israel has since escalated its air \u200band 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 \u200cclose \u2060he felt to the “beloved Lebanese people” and called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

In his weekly address to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said there was “a moral obligation to protect the civilian population from the horrific effects of war.”<\/p>\n

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

“This isn’t humanity. This is a war crime,” Saeed told Reuters at the hospital where Aline’s mother, Ghinwa, was still being treated.<\/p>\n

“Where are the human rights? \u200bIf a child,\u00a0a child!,\u00a0is \u200bwounded in Israel, the whole world \u2060jumps up. Are we not people? Are we not humans? We’re like them!” he said.<\/p>\n

Read More: Israeli airstrikes kill 22 more in Lebanon<\/p>\n

Taleen was \u200bborn in 2024, in the last round of fierce clashes between Hezbollah and Israel.<\/p>\n

“She was born in \u200bthe war and died \u2060in the war,” said Mohammed Nazzal, Ghinwa’s father.<\/p>\n

Fierce bombardment continues <\/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 \u2060Attiyeh, head \u200bof emergency operations at Tyre’s Jabal Amel hospital, said last week’s bombardment was one \u200bof the heaviest in recent years and many of the patients arriving at his hospital were children.<\/p>\n

“The challenges we’re facing now are the numbers of wounded that come at the \u200bsame time, within the same 30 minutes or hour,” Attiyeh told Reuters.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, seven, barely survived the \u200bIsraeli strike on her home in south Lebanon last week. She was there to bury her father as hopes of \u200ca truce spread across the region, but a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives. The strike on the Saeed family home in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}