Beirut
\nWrapped 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.
\nThe 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.
\n\u201cThey 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 \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.
\nOn 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\u2019s sister.
\nShe had not yet turned two.
\nWith 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.
\nThe 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.
\nTaleen \u2018born in war and died in war\u2019
\nThe latest war in Lebanon \u200bbegan on March 2, when Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired on Israeli positions in support of its patron Iran.
\nIsrael 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.
\nPope Leo on Sunday said how \u200cclose he felt to the \u201cbeloved Lebanese people\u201d and called for a ceasefire.
\nIn 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
\nWednesday was one of the deadliest days in Lebanon\u2019s recent history.
\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.
\n\u201cWhere are the human rights? \u200bIf a child, a child!, is \u200bwounded in Israel, the whole world jumps up. Are we not people? Are we not humans? We\u2019re like them!\u201d he said.
\nTaleen was \u200bborn in 2024, in the last round of fierce clashes between Hezbollah and Israel.
\n\u201cShe was born in \u200bthe war and died in the war,\u201d said Mohammed Nazzal, Ghinwa\u2019s father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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