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On September 29, an Israeli strike in Lebanon left 15 people dead. 14 hours later, a two-year-old child was found alive in the rubble.
The airstrike left no chance for the people who lived in this apartment complex in Sarafand, Lebanon. On September 29, 15 people died following this attack. And while “the rescuers had almost lost all hope of finding survivors under the rubble”, a two-year-old child was found. The latter was stuck under the rubble for 14 hours and is the only survivor as told Houssein Khalifa, the little boy's uncle.
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“We all thought he was dead.”
“He appeared among the debris in the bulldozer bucket when we all thought he was dead […] He emerged from the rubble, barely breathing, after 14 hours” under the debris, his uncle said, as reported by Le Parisien.
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Quickly transported to Saida hospital, the little boy was plunged into an artificial coma after the amputation of his right hand and was placed on a respirator. At present, he is still asleep and will have to undergo another operation in Beirut when he wakes up.
