Published on June 29, 2024 at 05:30.
In the village of Jannata in southern Lebanon, Saada wanders through the rubble. “My daughter Sally was here,” says Saada as she enters a destroyed building. She died one evening with her friend Dalal in an air raid. My daughter was an ambulance driver. As a pendant, a portrait of the young, flirtatious 26-year-old woman, a pastel pink veil carefully adjusted around her made-up face. A few days earlier, the neighboring building accused of belonging to Hezbollah was the target of an Israeli strike and reduced to dust. Two local women, including Sally, died in the explosion which also left 19 injured. “She was my only daughter,” sighs Saada with a bitter smile, “why did she have to die here? There were only civilians in his building.” In Lebanon, already 95 civilians have been killed since the start of the conflict in October, as well as 355 Hezbollah fighters and their allies, and more than 95,000 people have had to leave their homes, according to the United Nations.
“Don’t blame me if I cry to you, Sally.”
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